Short video by Hallie Bulkin advising caregivers to stop tummy time if a baby is screaming, investigate causes of pain, and address underlying issues such as oral ties and neck/upper-chest muscle tension. Recommends adjusting incline/angle to ease lifting the head, then gradually building arm strength and neck range of motion.
If your baby is screaming in tummy time, stop. It is not worth it to cause pain to your baby. So if your baby is screaming in tummy time, then stop. And we need to figure out what is the cause. And if there's really pain, then we need to work on that. There's also for babies who have oral ties, when there's tension in the mouth, it can lead to tension through the neck and the upper chest. And so when babies are on their bellies and they're trying to lift their heads, all those, those muscles and the fascia that's all really tight there and it can feel very difficult for baby to lift their heads up. And that's really challenging for them. And so sometimes again, putting them on that incline gives them a little bit of an easier time looking around. Changing the angle can make such a difference. And we want to make sure that we're, you know, then building up slowly so that we're building more arm strength, that we are stretching the neck and making sure that we're getting more range of motion there so that it makes that prone positioning, that belly down positioning easier.
What I Was Missing in Feeding Therapy: ARFID, Airway, and Myo with Samy Hernandez
