The floor changes under them
The same suggestion — a variety of textured toys and surfaces — takes in the ones you already own: the rug, the bare floor, a towel folded flat. Nothing has to be bought or set up. You carry baby a few steps and everything under them has changed, and some days one of the two is plainly the better place to be.
🧺 You need
- two floor surfaces that feel different — a rug and bare floor, or a blanket and a bath towel
🛡️ Tummy time is awake time — stay in the room and end it at the first sign of tiring: a head that stays down, a face pressed flat, grumbling that will not settle. Whatever they lie on stays flat and stays put: no rucked-up edges, no towel bunched near the face, nothing that can rumple over the nose. Sweep each surface before you set them down — cables, small objects and anything that would fit through a toilet-roll tube go somewhere else first. The trip between the two is a slow one, with their head and neck supported the whole way and no swinging or bouncing on the way over. Floor level only: a rug laid on a bed or sofa is not one of these surfaces.
Source: Pathways — Sensory Development Activities for 4-6 Month Old Babies
🩺 Vuila shares play ideas, not medical advice — for questions about your child's development, talk to your pediatrician.
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