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Originally Posted by AzNightmare
My kid is almost 9 months now. He loves to roll over to his front but he still struggles to actually get out of the "tummy time" position. He gets stuck/tired and eventually just face plants into the ground or bed. Sometimes we worry if he can breathe so we're always relatively quick to flip him back over. If we don't, he starts screaming and crying anyway.
He's really good at rolling to his front though. You put him down on his back and step away for a moment and you know he'll be on his front by the time you come back.
It seems like he prefers lying on his front, but just doesn't know what to do from there. Is there anything I can do as a parent to help him learn how to roll back to his backside, or crawl?
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He's likely just frustrated he can't get back over. It'll come with time. All kids end up developing at different speeds.
My first never crawled. He'd roll and pull himself along the hardwood floor with his arms. After he learned to pull himself up and use the walker thing, he walked with it till he walked on his own.
The second went through the normal crawl/walk/run stages.
If you know someone with a kid around the same age, there's some use in exposing them to other kids behavior to mimic. Our second certainly went through development stages faster we think as she had her brother to mimic as they're 2 years apart.
We had a friend of a friend at a party tell us their 9 month old didn't talk (basic single words baba mama milk etc) or babble, and after being next to my kid who was babbling away, he started babbling too. The mom was over the moon excited.
The "milestone" dates for crawling/walking/talking have a wide target window.