Why Boychen will never learn to crawl
Boychen doesn't get a lot of "tummy time" around here, certainly not two 10-20 minute sessions a day as recommended by many experts. I know about tummy time and I know why it's important. Now that babies are going to sleep on their backs, a practice which dramatically reduces instances of crib death, time on the belly is even more important to help them develop the skills and upper body strength that lead to rolling and crawling. And I try, dutifully putting Boychen on his belly on his very colorful and interesting playmat (courtesy of Australian Friend) daily. But Boychen hates tummy time and starts crying - really wailing - after about three minutes. No matter what toys I present him with, however much I lower myself onto the floor to get fact-to-face with him, no matter how much Mozart that playmat belts out, Boychen wails. Which I can be hard-hearted enough to disregard for the sake of his physical development but for one thing: Small Boy comes running, yelling "Mi bruder ! Mi bruder! Nay nay hor oof!!* He doesn't like that!" and starts to try to roll Boychen onto his back.
Which is totally interfering with Boychen's development but is kind of the cutest thing ever.
I hope Small Boy is always this protective of his chly bruder.**
* Translation: My brother! My brother! No no stop that!
**Translation: little brother
4 Comments:
Cute.
(I pretty much had amnesia about tummy time with #2, but she's on the same schedule for developmental milestones as her brother with whom I was much better organized.)
Lol!
A hated tummy time and would last about 30 seconds before screaming his head off and going all red.
I don't care for his screams, so he'd get minimal belly time.
Now, he's better and has tried to push himself off, but it still won't last 10 to 20 minutes (Ha!). Maybe 5 or 7 on a good day, but these aren't that often.
I don't care about that. He can learn to crawl when he's ready to crawl. He tries, by pushing is butt high into the air and then pushes himself off with the feet. But his hands are widely splayed out on the floor and his face is on the floor, so it kind of doesn't work. We've shown him what to do with his hands. We've held him in the "all fours" position. We've lifted his body and allowed him to "walk" with his hands. He's not catching on yet.
Eventually, he will.
And then we'll have to babyproof the flat. Ack.
Brooklyn Girl - that's reassuring to hear
Kinuk - yeah, the screams are really hard to take, aren't they? Watch out, once A starts crawling you'll barely have time to baby-proof the flat!
Oh so that´s what tummy time is for. I have some lost time to make up for.
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