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He rolled over front to back at 10 weeks and back to front at 12

my son started rolling belly to back at 3.5 months. he's not super consistent yet, but it's most days (at 4 mo). he hangs out on his side a lot these days too, playing with his feet. he's only done back to belly once on his play mat.

my daughter absolutely hated tummy time at first, but I used the boppy to help her build up some strength and now she handles it better. she is still not rolling over, but is getting close in the same ways you described. i'm not worried. our ped said it's actually more like a 6 month milestone, rather than a 4.

She was 3 months the first time from belly to back. She didn't start doing it consistently until she was 4 months.

Our LO was late. She didn't roll over for the first time until 6 months (belly to back) and not frequently until 7 months. She still hasn't rolled back to belly and she's 8 months, but she's close. She's sitting up and hitting all of the other physical milestones, so I tried not to sweat it. I tried to do exercises with her to help her realize how to roll, and I really think that helped.

charlie did front to back at 4 months, and then back to front at 4.5 months. olive was a month later with rolling over, but she was also born a month early so she was about the same as charlie.

once charlie could roll back to belly he always slept on his belly. but even though olive could roll back to belly, she didn't consistently start sleeping on her belly until 8 months.

haha our LO is 6 months and has only *kind of* rolled from front to back once... not worried yet, he's a heavy boy at almost 20lbs!

@jennylynn: I'm curious to hear more about the exercises you've done with your LO if you don't mind sharing.

My 5-month-old LO likes to roll onto her sides to sleep and play, but doesn't roll front to back or back to front much unless she's REALLY motivated.

3.5 months I think, they both happened within a week or so of each other.

My LO didnt roll much. She'd do it randomly once in awhile but she just never was a big roller.

Tummy to back was really early - 6 weeks. Back to tummy was around 3 months.

@PinkElephant: Nothing too intense. I would lay her flat on her back and pull her to sitting using her hands, to help strengthen her belly and neck muscles. I'd also lay her on belly and sort of guide her into rolling. I think her biggest problem was getting started with it, and not knowing what to do with her little arm. I guided her to straightening her arm out in front of her, and gave her a little nudge, and she started needing me less and less. Now that she's mastered it, I can't get her to stay on her belly for more than 10 seconds!!! I work with her back to belly rolling by laying her on her back, and pulling her leg over just far enough where her body starts to turn, and she flips herself right over the rest of the way.

She's 22 weeks today and started doing back to belly regularly a week ago. Still doesn't reliably do belly to back.