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I think it's wise advice. I used the car seat for time in the car, and really only used the swing for awake time, never naps.

My son also hated tummy time, but you know what, I never had to deal with breaking motion dependent sleep and flat head.

A friend of mine is a former nanny. We were pretty new parents when I went to an afternoon tea with some other friends. She suggested that I do an hour of tummy time a day when he was tiny. She equated it with exercise for him. From then on, I did that. LO got a lot of exercise. Newborn hood is such a blur now. I don't think that I had LO on his back much then.

E screamed bloody murder any time we put him on his stomach. He had no interest in looking at toys, or me, or mirrors. I would let him cry for about 5 minutes at a time every half an hour to hour during the day, and also put him on my chest/stomach (he didn't mind that).

I am guilty of letting him sleep in the car seat, though, if we were able to bring it in without waking him. But he would almost never sleep unless he was being held...that was pretty much the only time, and it usually only ended up for being maybe 15 minute stretches.

It's hard to know what the "average" new parent knows, because obviously I spend a fair amount of time reading about parenting stuff and am probably a wee bit over informed, but even given that, I feel like everyone knows they *should* limit time in those holders. But knowing you should and the realities of dealing with a cranky newborn are different, and until you actually face consequences, it's hard to feel like anything could happen.

I personally "lucked out" in that my baby hated laying on her back OR tummy and I pretty much had her in the moby or my arms all the time. I also know several babies who needed helmets so I was ultra aware of it, but it was mostly her refusing to settle down any other way. She did sleep in the RnP for a few months with no issues.