Tummy Time

Tummy time... I don't remember using this term 29 years ago. Most of the time was tummy time because that's what the doctors and baby specialist recommended...lay your baby on their tummy to sleep.

Not anymore. Now you lay them on their back. Now, tummy time is what you do to encourage them to raise their heads and strengthen their upper body...I think.

Tummy time has not been one of Benjamin's favorite activities. Emerson didn't like it in the beginning but all of a sudden one day, UP he went...and now he can do his tummy time for quite a while. I went to post photos of Emerson during his Tummy Time, and realized...they're all on my cellphone! ( How in the world do you get those on a computer?) The last time I was with Benjamin, I cheered him on as I gave him some tummy time and up his little cute head came.


This is Lindsey, Benjamin's sweet mama on March 31, 1981...she was born on February 19, 1981 - you can do the math. She wasn't even two months old and look at that tummy time!

When I saw these photos, I was thinking about how young Lindsey was compared to Benjamin and Emerson...and I figured it was probably because she was on her tummy so much, it encouraged her to raise her head up sooner.

Benjamin was looking at me, wondering if he should make me squeal and holler and cheer...
Oh, come on Little Man!
Go ahead, use that cute little arm to push yourself up...
He was thinking how much fun this was...looking at himself in the mirror that was on the toy in his bed...
Tummy time... part of the new mama vocabulary!