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Cognitive Development

Promoting Exploration & Discovery

Place toys around your baby and let your baby move and reach for them.

WHY IT MATTERS

Tummy time helps develop the essential functions for further motor and cognitive development. These functions include normal curves of the spine, trunk and neck muscles, weight bearing, visual motor skills, reciprocal patterns and reflexes.

Jennings, J. (2008). Touting tummy time: Infants benefit from early use of position. Advance for Physical Therapy and Rehab Medicine, 19(25), 26.