Baby Lead Movement

[MrsBexie]

ooh I really like this idea!!! Did you do it from birth? Could you start it at a later date, like if we wanted to start with our 6 week old DD?

[ladybirdflies]

@ V-love, she rolled at four months, rolled back within the next few weeks after that. She started using rolling as a way of getting round at about 8 months. She has been doing stomach crunches since about three months. Currently, she rolls to her side and half sits up from there, she can pull to sitting when laid in the pram or anything with sides on it. The amazing thing is she can slowly lower herself back down (those abs!) She has been commando crawling forwards for about a week and in currently playing on her knees. In the bath she lays on her tummy and plays and rolls never once dipping her face in, it's amazing! She is very aware of her body space and quite often will roll right to the edge of the bed and just teeter on the edge perfectly balanced and then laugh and roll back. Blows me away.
No to tummy time from birth
@ Mrs Bexie,
Of course it is not too late at all. Start now if you like. We only held her laying in our arms for three months, and about then we still laid her in the Madonna hold but a little more raised IYKWIM. THe tricky thing has been asking people who snuggle her not to sit her, prop her or stand her on her legs without offending them. There is a good book called 'A warm and Gentle Welcome. Nurturing Children from birth to three' Part of the gateways series five. This has a little about it. The rest has been from my work and study to do with Rudolf Steiner and developing the physical body in the first 7 years. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask!

[Yeddi]

Sorry, I've got to ask it, but how is being put on their back any more of a naturally applied position than being put on their tummy? Babies lie on their back because we put them there as much as they would lie on the tummy by us putting them there... To be honest, a babies favourite position is usually hanging them upside down like they are in the womb. I know my son LOVED being upside down when he went to see the osteo post birth. Not exactly practical or healthy though to be doing all the time, and of course they can't put themselves into that position.

My DS does all this too (the rolling, commando crawling, baby bending) despite us putting him into positions like on his tummy and helping he stand (because he loves that position too even if he can't get into it himself), and I'm not trying to be competitive, but he's been doing it since 5 months (he's only just hit 6 months this week and rocking on his knees). He first rolled both ways at 2 months (from tummy to back and back to tummy again). People have always commented on how strong DS is, because he's built like a brick S'House and could hold his head as steady as a 3 month old on his first day of life, and everything else has gone from there. My DD however didn't even crawl until 17 months and we never consciously put her into any position but her back, but she had low-tone issues. Couldn't it just be the personality and physical strength of the individual child?

And while I understand some of the logic behind some Osteo's telling people to not sit a baby before they are ready, I'm a little bit confused about how that relates to putting the baby on their back only. In fact my Osteo explicitly said to make sure I didn't always stick baby on his back, and to rotate between tummy, right side, back, left side.

That being said, our home is Steiner-based (to a degree), and therefore a texture banquet where it wasn't before, maybe that has something more to do with advanced development. The motivation of exploration... Although, I don't see what the big deal about our kids doing things faster than other kids is anyway. They'll all do it in their own time, and that time will be what is right for them.

[Heaven]

Sorry, I've got to ask it, but how is being put on their back any more of a naturally applied position than being put on their tummy? Babies lie on their back because we put them there as much as they would lie on the tummy by us putting them there...

That's what I was thinking too?? Actually, I'd think they'd prefer to be on their tummy where they can be all curled up like in the womb iykwim.