Tummy Time

This morning we mandated "Tummy Time" for Harrison. While infants need to sleep on their backs to lower the risk of SIDS, evidently they do not get enough time on their tummys to exercise their neck muscles or work on rolling over; some kids will skip crawling and go straight to walking (neither good nor bad) because they did not get enough practice crawling due to lack of time tummy side down. Therefore we need to have some tummy time every day and today was our first real go at it. We proclaimed it a good session as Harrison worked on picking up his head and kicking out his legs... you can see the results below for yourself. Note: he looks like he is crying but he is not (although he was certainly frustrated!).

Starting out...

Kicking out his legs... infants can pseudo crawl...

uh oh... getting frustrated...

quick rest before starting all over again!