11 weeks and rolling?
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Topic: 11 weeks and rolling?
Posted By: Inlove28
Subject: 11 weeks and rolling?
Date Posted: 06 March 2010 at 3:28pm
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Is 11 weeks too young to roll? Bubs decided today that if she doesnt like tummy time she tries to roll over, I had to assist her twice but now every time I have tried to put her on her tummy she starts rolling!! Not sure if shes putting her arm in right place thou... Also
Do you remember at how many months did your baby fully have their head up with tummy time? |
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Posted By: Delli
Date Posted: 06 March 2010 at 4:46pm
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Jude rolled front to back at 10 weeks - he did it everyday for a week or two and then didn't do it again (unless by accident) until about a month ago after he had learnt to roll back to front.
ETA: Jude has always had a very strong neck - we have photos of him holding his head up (and keeping it up) while on his tummy at 4 days old. We didn't realise how weird that was until we started socialising with other babies. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 06 March 2010 at 4:48pm
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Ethan was 4 months..but Liam is almost there now..i asked mw and she said there's a massive range.. re the head up..Liam does it for a few secs now..Ethan didnt like to for a few months!!! but we got Ethan seen by chiro and that helped and Liam seen earlier.. and Ethan was walking by one..lol so guess it didnt slow him down! ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: mummyofprinces
Date Posted: 06 March 2010 at 5:12pm
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Jake was about the same age.. only did it for a week and then was on to something else.. he has only rolled back to front once.. in his cot and I missed it (I know he did because I put him down on his back and i found him sitting and he cant sit up from lying on his back).
Jake also had a strong neck from birth, he was lifting his head on my chest in the hospital... He didnt start holding himself up with his hands until about 5 months though... -------------   
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Posted By: kathamill
Date Posted: 06 March 2010 at 6:07pm
| no way is it too young, our DD started rolling the day before she was 7 weeks! it's totally a anytime thing, same with teeth etc... not sure about the head thing, but it was maybe around 5 weeks? |
Posted By: Nikki
Date Posted: 06 March 2010 at 6:58pm
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Morgan was rolling tum to back every day from 6 weeks (could NEVER keep her on her tum, and she started crawling from a sitting position, not her tum!). She went the other way before 3 months (can't really remember as she didn't like tummy time so didn't go that way much). Jake had heart surgery at 6 weeks so no tummy time til 10wks, and was rolling by 12 weeks. Definitely not too young. Both my kids could hold their heads up right from the start. I can't really remember when they were right up (arms fully stretched) but I think it was around 3 months. ------------- DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs) |
Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 06 March 2010 at 11:19pm
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C was lifting her head up from about 4 days, rolled over at 6 weeks
um Tyler, the baby I had 8 months ago I can't remember as well , but he was holding his head up from about a week ,and keeping it there for quite a while ------------- 
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Posted By: kiwisj
Date Posted: 07 March 2010 at 12:04am
Callum rolled from front to back at 7 weeks old. Which was a week before his EDD  He held his head up on tummy from very early too, I think from 4 weeks? The rolling he did for a month or so and then he started getting chubby and he couldn't move his weight so easily anymore  ------------- SJ Callum - Dec 2008 Daniel - Oct 2010 |
Posted By: freckle
Date Posted: 07 March 2010 at 7:51am
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DD2 was holding her head up from birth and rolled at 6 weeks... DD1 was over 13 years ago when she did it and I can't remember but she was a litle later ------------- mum to 3 lovely girls :D |
Posted By: E&L+1
Date Posted: 07 March 2010 at 10:15am
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Esme had her head up at birth but had real control from about 2 weeks and first rolled tummy to back at 5 weeks. Although she seems to have forgotten how lately! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: kaybee
Date Posted: 07 March 2010 at 2:43pm
as the SPARC booklets say 'it's not the age that they do it, it's the order that they do it in' - if your bub is rolling on her own then she must be ready, some babies will do some things super early and then might take longer to do other things, but they all get there in the end!  ------------- 
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Posted By: bun_in_the_oven
Date Posted: 07 March 2010 at 7:54pm
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DS was holding his head up for minutes at a time from birth.. (he was 11 days overdue) and standing with strong legs from about 6 weeks
Rolling from tummy to back at 6 weeks and back to tummy about 8 weeks... Hes trying SOOO hard to crawl now and just becomes sooo frustrated and has a wee tandrum !! (mummy cant help but laugh at him coz he looks sooo funny!!) |
Posted By: shadowfeet
Date Posted: 07 March 2010 at 10:52pm
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DD rolled front to back at 2 1/2 weeks, but I think that was a fluke cos she hasn't done it again. ------------- 
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Posted By: mamanee
Date Posted: 07 March 2010 at 11:10pm
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Jamie started rolling back to front tonight and he is 12 and a half weeks, he also rolled over again from his front onto his back, but only did it once or twice. He's my placid baby :D
Sam was waaaaaaaaaay early, but then he was super super super energetic, verging on hyperactive as a newborn.
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Posted By: _Deb_
Date Posted: 07 March 2010 at 11:21pm
Hi inlove.
Kaelen was rolling front to back at 10 weeks and back to front at 4 months. Isabella has been rolling front to back for awhile now (can't remember exactly) and started rolling back to front the other day. She never stays where i put her. lol. From birth she always rolled onto her side. Which is how she sleeps. ------------- 
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Posted By: Inlove28
Date Posted: 08 March 2010 at 9:17am
| Hi Deb!! |
Posted By: T_Rex
Date Posted: 08 March 2010 at 11:02am
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What day was your bub born? I think she must be pretty close to my DD.
DD has rolled front to back for a few weeks now, but there is an element of luck in it, I think. If her arms aren't in the right place she can't do it. She also rolls back to side, but not side to front. She can hold her head up pretty well but it does tend to sag when shes tired. Every baby is different tho.
How are you going with the sleeping now? I raised the head of the cot to see if it would help the spilling and DD slept 9 hours the first night and 7 hours last night. I feel heaps better!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Flutterby
Date Posted: 08 March 2010 at 6:48pm
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DS was rolling back to front at 5 wks, and he had a very strong neck from day one. I remember seeing him hold his head up during skin to skin ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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