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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I am very thankful to have a happy healthy

daughter, despite her flat head :-) I am also thankful to have found this group!

I appreciate everyone's support and feedback!

Mom to McKenna 7 months- band 7 weeks

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> From: cchudacoff <cvchudacoff@ hotmail.com>

> Subject: Questions re: Tummy Time and rolling over

> in sleep

> Plagiocephaly

> Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 4:07 PM

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> I actually have two questions that are sort of related. My

> 6.25 mo

> (Starband 6 weeks) never liked tummy time and still

> doesn't. We've

> just seen a PT and she really wants me to enforce the tummy

> time at

> home, all the time, even though baby really cries through

> it. He's

> been sitting up like a 7 month old since 5 months and much

> prefers

> to be sitting up, or even standing up holding on to

> something with

> help. To avoid tummy time, baby rolls out of it onto his

> back, but

> won't roll from his back to his tummy again. The PT

> warned me

> against the sitting too much because she says he'll

> become a " bottom

> scooter " and won't learn how to crawl, which helps

> develop eye hand

> coordination, etc. I guess my question is this: Should I be

> worried?

> I'm not going to torture the poor guy all day on his

> tummy. Does the

> helmet or a big head make tummy time more difficult?

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> Next question is this: Recently, to sleep, he's

> started rolling

> (asleep I assume) from his back to his side and then to his

> tummy

> and then wakes up to find he can't get out of that

> position. We are

> also in the midst of sleep training (again) and our Ped

> says to

> leave him in that position so he can learn how to get out

> of it by

> himself. It makes sense, but I am also a bit nervous

> leaving him

> there, sometimes with his face wedged into the corner. I

> feel like

> the helmet makes the rolling more difficult?? Has anyone

> experience

> with this? Any words of wisdom?

>

> Thank you!

>

> Cecily

> mom to Diego, 6.25 months, Starband 6 weeks

> San Francisco, CA

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