Tummy time is often either a source of fun for families–or of distress. Check out my new tummy time website! EnjoyTummyTime.com – Your Source for a Respectful and Informed Approach to Tummy Time
Whether it’s going wonderfully or is challenging, I have some important information to share with you, including tips you will not see in much of the tummy time literature out there:
- How Baby gets into and out of tummy time makes a difference
- Watching for and reducing a startle response
- What counts as “tummy time”
- Why tummy time is not just about muscle strength
- Allow the newborn’s bending hips and knees in tummy time
- Empowering ways to address that stuck arm
- Engagement vs distraction–why paying attention to fussing is important
- How propping devices can actually make tummy time more challenging
- Tummy time is part of a bigger picture: lying on the side and back are important too!
This approach to tummy time comes from Infant Developmental Movement Education (IDME), part of the Body-Mind Centering approach to somatic education.
Make Tummy Time a place of ease, comfort, and delight!
Eliza Parker is a certified Infant Developmental Movement Educator®, Aware Parenting Instructor, Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner, and Feldenkrais® Practitioner.
© Eliza Parker 2014, All Rights Reserved (Links are welcome. If you’d like to share my writing in your blog or materials, please ask permission.)
Excellent and beautiful in all ways, Eliza. Well done!
Annie