Tummy time

Jack gets tummy time at school everyday so we don't usually subject him to it again at home at night, but yesterday I noticed his "report card" from school didn't mention any tummy time, so I thought we'd give it a whirl and see how he was doing with it. Before I went back to work he'd move his head from side to side but wouldn't really push up or hold his head up for any length of time. But look at him now, he's a pro!



































For those that aren't familiar with tummy time, now that babies sleep on their backs, they have to have supervised time on their tummies to make sure they develop the arm, leg and neck strength they need to crawl. When babies slept on their tummies, they got plenty of practice but once the experts linked tummy sleeping to SIDS and moved them all to their backs, they noticed that babies were quite delayed in crawling because they never developed those muscles.

Eventually he tires out...


















and finds his thumb...