Tummy time exercises for your baby

When you take your baby home from the hospital, you will have been given instructions to put your baby to sleep on his or her back. But because of this, we need to give the baby opportunities to develop shoulder and abdominal muscles, and to prevent flattening of the back or side of the baby's head.

Every time you change your baby's diaper, turn your baby gently over onto his or her tummy. Gently put pressure on his or her bum, and bring his or her elbows in front of the shoulders. This will encourage your baby to lift his or her head. Do this for one or two minutes to ensure good strength of your baby's shoulder and abdominal muscles.

[bluetrapp]

Doing this every diaper change is a genius idea! My baby hated tummy time, but doing tummy time every diaper change for a minute from birth will definitely teach them to tolerate it.

[mattchisa]

He is the CUTEST BABY IVE SEEN! So precious and perfect.

[NoRCaLFiNeSto]

Our newborn is only a month and by the 3rd week his neck strength is quite frightening to visitors. We would have him on our shoulder for burping and he just throw his whole head back with control. Even now he's only a month and a week old he's already rolling on his side.

[dariennekabengele]

My son lifted he’s head after 3 days all the doctors and nurse were doing test to see why he was doing that they just came to an understanding that he is a quick learn and even started crawling at 1 month and walked at 5 months

[strangestorm]

I love how the baby is just as happy as ever 😍😍😍

[pamjohnson]

Baby holding head up is great! Strong and smart baby.

[bobbiolivera]

That baby looks so precious!!! It has to be illegal to be that cute.

[sayakazuhiko]

Perfect video!!
Short, simple and strait to the point
Make more of these videos it helps new moms like my self !!!

[angelashrestha]

The baby might be 10 years old now. Wow. Time flies🙌🏼

[User--hurtfh]

My girl baby is also calm always, like this baby. I love her so much. So cute

[twiniesworld]

Thank you for your video! I did this to my twins and it works!! You have a cutest baby anyway!🥰😘

[raymouton]

🤣 Yall don't know how feisty and strong my baby is. He fights us.

[hothaleema]

How I wish that I saw this video before. My son is over 3 months old. No one told me about tummy time. I am doing them now.

[chissstardestroyer]

Newborn babies are emotionally attached to their moms, so clearly emotional bonding begins before birth.

[CrippledPotato]

This video was uploaded 11 years ago. Those babies are about to be proper teenagers now!

[xfox]

THe look in the baby's face when the Caretaker put hands on him. Like "damn you again! No oh wait i'm not ready! Not readyyyy!"

[revatikhutwad]

Very nice video. Tummy time is really important for babies to relieve the gas

[thebabyplanet]

Great video, thats true, you should put your baby on a tummy as early as possible, but after a belly buttom heals

[cookiecocothechi-chisister]

We do daily tummy time with the NICU preemies as part of their therapy and some of them actually don’t mind it at all (which means that they do what they’re supposed to without fussing and/or crying). And then we’ve got the micro-screamers and the micro-screamers absolutely hate tummy time so they just lay there on their bellies and scream their heads off the entire time until tummy time is over. Luckily since the micro-screamers voices are still extremely low and weak due to their prematurity, all the other preemies in the room can still get their sleep/rest without being disturbed, Lol.

[davec.]

Eye contact is good with the baby even right away. They are very smart and like to see a happy face and someones eyes and it comforts them too