Rolling over of a 3 Month Old

At 3 months, I wouldn't worry. My sons both hated being on their tummies until about 4 or 5 months when they were almost sitting on their own. All of them had some kind of stop to moving around. One of my girls started walking when she was about 10 months. Fell on her butt and refused to even bother for another month.

babies do not progress in smooth upward arcs. for the rest of his life he'll make progress, stop, make some more, backslide, stop, move on.
let your tiny baby be a baby. he's fine.
khairete
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My son never rolled. Really. He just laid like a stuck turtle until eventually he could pull himself to a sitting position and then he crawled and then he walked and then he ran.

His cousin never crawled. Not even once. He rolled all over the house, like some kind of crazy hamster ball. Then he too eventually figured the whole walking thing out.

Both kids are now young men are healthy and normal and developmentally fine.

All kids are different. I wouldn't worry about your son.

He probably was not intentionally rolling over. Give him time and he will be all over. Don't worry.

I love the stuck turtle description Elena!

I was going to say, one of mine rolled over quite by surprise - remember him looking confused that he suddenly had changed orientation. I don't think he meant to. He did it a few times, then we didn't see him intentionally try for quite some time after.

One of mine only crawled (or rather pushed himself) backwards. He kept ending up in the corners of the room. Another one of mine could not for the life of him pick up a Cheerio.

It's really normal to be concerned but you'll be a lot happier if you just enjoy what he's doing instead of worrying about what he's not doing :) Easier said than done I know, but he sounds fine!

Good luck :) Enjoy him - the infant months pass by quickly.

You've posted two questions on the same day about your three-month old. I'd consider getting a good book on infant development, one that includes sections on newborn-to-year-old children--ask your pediatrician for a recommendation, but please, don't seek out books that are all about "Get your baby on a schedule immediately and sleep train and feed train and make baby live by your desired schedule." One reply to the other question really nailed it -- it can go downhill fast if you listen to the authors who claim young infants can adhere to an adult clock.

At three months, he is still a very young infant; he doesn't need to be scheduled by an adult but the adults should follow his lead and let him sleep when he's sleepy and roll when he's ready. Give him as much "tummy time" as the pediatrician recommends and don't push it beyond that, and don't expect that if he rolled a few times earlier he's going to keep doing it or else he's not developing -- there are many, many stops and starts to how a child develops.

Try to find a group where moms of new infants get together with each other and their babies. I was in a group like that when my daughter was born -- the local hospital organized it, and we sat around with our young babies on blankets on the floor, and a pediatric nurse took our questions and we all just casually chatted. It did a LOT to help us all calm down and not get fixated on schedules, "milestones," "Should baby be doing X by now," and so forth. Really a big help! Check your local hospital or hospital chain--they mostly all have education departments or new parent liaisons who can help, even if you did not have your child at that hospital.

Count your blessings. Our son learned how to roll over at < 2 weeks old. We could never turn our back on him as you couldn't be sure where he might end up. He'll figure it out soon.

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F. B.

Our son hated tummy time - at least at first he did.
He enjoyed tummy time if he was on MY tummy - so we did that for awhile.
Give it some time!

My son just turned 5 months old yesterday and still hasn't rolled over on purpose. He's doing other things ahead of the curve, but not that. I know he's doing just fine... So be ready proud your baby was doing it super early for a while. Try putting something he may want near him. Like try lying just out of reach or maybe something like a noisy/lighted toy, that would be more motivational to roll over again.

If he doesn't want to be on his tummy, and he cries, that frustration is what will get him to roll over. Continue to give him his floor time, whether he's happy about it or not. He can't learn to roll over, scoot, crawl, etc., if he's not on the floor.