Placing your baby onto their tummy vs their back while they are awake. Tummy time should always be supervised.

Most babies should begin tummy time as a newborn but check with your pediatrician if your baby has any restrictions.

Tummy time helps baby’s spine get the lower lumbar curve while also developing their trunk and neck muscles to eventually help them learn to crawl and then walk. Tummy time allows gentle pressure onto your baby's organs helping to relieve gas. It also is a wonderful way to develop fine and gross motor skills along with sensory play helping with your babies development.

Let’s Face it, tummy time is hard muscular work. It takes so much of your baby’s energy and strength to lift their little head. Our recommendation is to start slow. Think of angles. You’ll start with a steep angle and then move toward a flat surface.

Here’s our tummy time timeline.

0-2weeks:
Start skin to skin on mom or dad's chest. Do this often and try to sit at an incline or lay down speaking/singing to your baby. Try to have them connect to you. Also do not let them favor one ear to your chest. Switch ears so that they don’t only look in one direction.

2-4 weeks:
Start using Roos Wraps. When they are itty bitty turn head to one side (make sure to switch which ear is down at different times you use Roos Wraps) at this age you will allow knees to come to your chest, gently bounce your legs and pat your baby’s back. Roos Wraps has the same effect as a swaddle mimicking a mother’s womb – baby feels safe and secure, the bouncing gives them vestibular input just as rocking a baby to sleep and the patting of the back helps release gas.

When baby can hold up their own head around 6-8 weeks using Roos Wraps, you can bring the knees over the chest and continue to bounce allowing for the angle to become less steep. Continue to use Roos Wraps daily for tummy time until your baby starts crawling.

****During all these stages you should also be incorporating tummy time on the floor.

Check out this awesome site on tummy time!

Tummy time on a flat surface is extremely difficult for babies who are suffering from colic. When baby is placed at an angle, tummy time gets physically easier for them—kinda like an adult suffering from acid reflux sleeping at an angle. Also the gentle pressure on the baby's digestive system by your shins along, with the gentle bouncing and patting, baby's back can help relieve gas.

Being snuggly wrapped in Roos Wraps creates a gentle pressure to calm baby while creating body awareness and body position in space otherwise known as proprioception input.

Gentle bouncing of the legs activates the receptors in the inner ear creating a sense of balance.

Roos Wraps allows baby to sit up tall just about everywhere instead of leaning to the side creating uneven obliques and lateral bend to the spine.

Roos Wraps is a flexible material where an adult can hold onto the straps and guide baby to sitting and continue to build their trunk muscles

Kangaroo care involves holding your baby against your chest for skin-to-skin contact. This type of touch can result in a variety of benefits for your baby’s mental and physical development, including:

• Regulating baby’s temperature, breathing, and heart rate
• Strengthening the emotional bond between baby and Mom or Dad
• Increasing Mom’s milk supply
• Encouraging baby’s growth
• Supporting healthy sleep, including quieter and longer naps

Many doctors and neonatal care workers recommend starting kangaroo care as soon as possible. How often or how long to hold your baby against your chest depends on your lifestyle and your baby’s needs.

You can learn more about the history of kangaroo care and how it works here: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/12578-kangaroo-care

Grocery carts, park swings, wagons, chairs and more.

Attach Roos Wraps to baby just like you would learning to walk. Instead of encouraging steps, allow baby to hold on to a toy while you hold the straps. Holding a toy will help baby balance while standing and strengthening their leg muscles.

Do your best to get your baby to hands and knees crawling before walking. This motion works both sides of the brain, develops balance and coordination that will later help when learning to walk. Some adults are even advised to practice crawling to stimulate the brain if they missed this as a baby!

When baby's arms are out to their side or holding a toy, your baby can develop balance. Think of walking on a curb or balancing on one foot. Would you put your arms straight up into the air? No you would put your arms to your sides like airplane wings to help you balance. Do this for your baby too!

Info on holding a toy here.

Roos Wraps are manufactured in Vernon, CA

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We offer a 14 day return of all unopened, new Roos Wraps. Shipping is non refundable and restocking fee is $10.

Yes! Roos Wraps has been safety tested up to 80 pounds and all materials are safe for your baby! Please see safety test HERE for more info. 

Roos Wraps have also earned the Children’s Product Certificate (CPC), which is only awarded to products that pass rigorous safety testing from a third-party, CPSC-accepted laboratory. You can view our CPC HERE.

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