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3 hours? My pedi only told us to shoot for at least 30 minutes a day! And my LO HATED tummy time, so we'd do it in 5 minute increments!

Eeep, I don't do that much tummy time with my LO... She screams every time we do it.

Three??? Whoa. Mine said 1 hour a day.

hahaha well I guess my kid is screwed. He absolutely hated tummy time. He would scream until we picked him up! We were lucky to get 30 minutes a day.

I absolutely would not stress about getting 3 hours. That is crazy!

My LO wouldn't tolerate it AT ALL until 3 months, when he had good head control and could lift his head (which he could do just fine despite not having hardly any tummy time before 3 months). Even at 3 months, he isn't into it. He does maybe 10 minutes a day--he's an excellent problem solver though! "Omg, I'm on my tummy, better stuff my fist in my mouth! They'll pick me up and feed me and I'll be off my tummy!"

i would have written a reply sooner but i was just on my office floor in tummy time for the past hour in the hopes that i will become a better person by the end of the day.

@edelweiss: lol!!!! I was feeling bad about myself yesterday so I locked myself away for 4 hours of tummy time just to be safe!

A nanny friend of mine told me to use tummy time like you would exercise. Use it to not only improve their ability to lift their head and neck, but to get them tired. She told me to do it 4 times a day for 15 minutes each time. The first time I did multiple tummy times during the day, he passed out.

@Espion: It really worked for us. We were struggling with colic and sleep issues. Once we made an hour's worth of tummy time routine, his sleep slowly started to improve. We learned to tire him out during the day which is something that no one told us beforehand. We still had to CIO with him at 6 months, but that was because he was dependent on rocking and nursing.

I would guarantee that 90% of our parents never logged x amount of hours of tummy time for any of us.
I think it's a great idea to encourage these things - use of muscle, problem solving, etc. - but I raise the BS flag on the 3 hours bit. DS haaated tummy time but was early to stand and walk (was walking by 8/9 months) and is a very physical child.

Three hours?! At that age my LO liked tummy time but he would not have tolerated THREE HOURS worth a day!

@Espion: Our ped said two hours. Ridiculous. LO had reflux as well so my goal was to wait an hour after he finished nursing... half of the time that ended up being either time to sleep or eat again.

@Ree723: Ellie was a tummy time hater. We (I should say "I") just didn't do it. I would just like to mention, as a huge proponent of babywearing, that wearing your baby helps them to develop the same muscles as well as their proprioceptive sense. There are so many different ways to meet a baby's need for these sorts of stimulation. And thinking back to the not-so-far distant biological past-- (and hearkening to my obsession with those darned cave-people) there is no WAY that it would have been safe to leave a baby laying on its tummy for even an hour a day, let alone three. People had to be mobile to gather food, cook, and engage in other daily life activities (and we're not even talking thousands of years back here in most cases), and there were dangers to babies if they were left at that level. Don't stress too much over it. And if you want to up tummy time, by all means, do it.

@hergreenapples: I'm with you!!