My 2.5 month old refuses to do ‘tummy time’. How will this affect her?
May 11th, 2010 | 
Author: She holds her head up well when being held or sitting in the bumbo chair. She looks around well. But when put on her stomach with or without the boppy pillow support, she immediately screams until flipped back over. I worry she’s not building arm strength.
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don’t worry about it right now, if she doesn’t like it. Try it agin in another couple of weeks, for short periods. She’ll eventually learn to like being on her tummy.
explain what is tummy time?
My daughter never liked tummy time until about four months old. And that was when she wanted to be on her belly. She was trying to start crawling. Best bet would be to try tummy time every day for just a few minutes, and only do it after she has been fed, but not to soon after because then it could upset her stomach, you want her to be content when you try.
Don’t worry about it. My daughter is 4 1/2 months old and I was asking the same question last month. She screamed bloody murder when put onto her stomach. I tried getting on the floor with her, spreading toys around the floor, and so on. She wanted no parts of it. Regardless I made sure I put her on her stomach every day even if it was for 10 seconds. Now, she will stay on her tummy for about 5-10 minutes at a time before screaming. She does wonderfully too considering the lack of tummy time in the past months. She has even started rolling from her stomach to back. Just be persistent and know that if she doesnt have much tummy time at 2 1/2 months it wont do much harm. She will still strengthen. Good luck
its nothing to woory about she is still alittle young to be on her tummy give her some times she wil adjust and she will be fine
a lot of baby’s don’t like it, let her be, some baby’s don’t crawl a lot either, she doesn’t need tummy time at her age, don’t rush her
Alot of newborns hate tummy time. Just keep at it, every so often put her down there with things to look at, toys, pictures, etc so that she doesn’t get bored.
You can also do tummy time on your chest. Just recline your self a bit, and put her on your chest on her tummy. That way you are near her, she can feel you and see you and she might take to it better. Also she will be able to look up and see you and that might encourage her to get practice. I did this until my daughter felt more comfortable doing tummy time on the floor or in the playpen.
Good Luck
my baby is 5 months and she never liked tummy time until now recently and not that much just for a few minutes but it wont affect her in any way there is babys that never once had it and became okay
dont worry about it..try later…my son was the same way and hes doing great with it now!..move n all around the room!..
Good luck and Congrats!
My son was the same way, he was still able to build arm and core strength, the only thing that it slowed down was when he finally rolled over.