Is it okay to do tummy time mostly on your chest?

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My baby doesn’t really like being on the floor during tummy time. I almost always have him on my chest or in a baby wrap during it. He can hold his head really well and lift it to look around. He’s 6 1/2 weeks old. If I lay him on the floor he just cries or won’t lift his head at all lol.

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It is to start with but you do need to continue giving him a bit of floor time and building it up gradually. Do you have a tummy time mat and toys to help? Mine loves a mirror

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It is to start, like someone else said, but you want to start some floor time too. You can roll up a small blanket to put under your baby's chest (supervised obvi). That helps some younger babes. It was how we got ours to hate it a bit less. We started even just a couple mins at a time, slowly building up over time, then we stopped using the blanket once she was more used to it.
Throwback to when my little was tiny as an example on how I propped her up (per our public health nurse's advice).
As you can see, she was still not too impressed, but she didn't scream right away anymore, lol.

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Your baby is still very young, so starting out and only on uppity chest is fine for now.

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We do most of his tummy time on our bed with me off of it at the bottom supervising and motivating him. We have just now (at 6 weeks) started doing floor tummy time but he definitely doesnt like it as much

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My daughter is 2 months. We have started doing tummy time on the changing table since that’s her happy place. We also do it in our bed some mornings when we’re awake but not ready to function so that we’re playing with her and she usually tolerates it for a while.

Is it okay to do tummy time mostly on your chest?

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