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Over and back again

⏱️ 10 min📦 nothing needed🏠 indoor🤲 on their back🤸 Motor

Rolling over in both directions is one of the things these months may bring. There is nothing here to drill and no order it has to arrive in — mostly what it asks of you is room: firm floor, nothing in the way, and you alongside for as long as it stays fun. The rest is a body finding out for itself what it can do.

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none — just a firm floor with clear space on every side

🛡️ Once a roll is possible at all, the first one comes without warning — so a bed, a sofa, a changing table or any raised surface is never somewhere to leave them, not even for the second it takes to turn around. Keep a hand on them up there, or do the change on the floor. At floor level, sweep what they can now reach: cables, cords, small objects, hard-edged toys parked where a roll would end. Stay in the room.

Source: AAP — Movement Milestones: Babies 4 to 7 Months

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Over and back again

Clear the floor wider than they are long

Pick a firm patch of floor and sweep it clear on every side — wider than baby is long, so a turn that keeps going still lands on floor. In a small room one cleared side is enough — lay them with their back against the wall or the sofa so there is only one direction to travel, and clear that.