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10/28/2025

Does is seem like your 3-5 month-old little one is not making progress toward this? Do they continue to lie with legs flat on the floor even after you playfully lift their feet to help guide them?

⭐️ Try these tips⭐️

1️⃣ Position baby with hips (instead of chest/arms) under dangling toys on play gym and help lift a foot to kick at toy

2️⃣ Leave 1 foot bare and put sock on the other (bright colors help draw attention) - a grab of each foot will provide different sensory stimulus to their hands

3️⃣ Move those wrist rattles down to the ankles so little kicks of legs will reward baby with sound

4️⃣ Place a folded blanket under the bottom half of baby’s hips/bottom - this will tilt pelvis posteriorly giving baby a little headstart with lifting those legs 👶

10/07/2025

Happy PT Month! 🥳

Join me this October as we celebrate
1️⃣ The devoted pediatric PTs who crawl around on the floor and squeeze into tunnels on playscapes to help babies and toddlers meet their movement goals

2️⃣ The parents who trust their instincts and to support their little one maximizing their capabilities

3️⃣ The babies and toddlers who put in the work - however hard or scary at the time - to prepare their little bodies to grow into their strongest “Future Me”
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10/05/2025

Helping babies play in the kneeling position is a great way to build their strength and readiness for reciprocal crawling down the road.

Raising babies from floor sitting up to kneeling brings their center of gravity several inches higher, challenging their balance and engaging their core muscles⬆️

Using a variety of surfaces for kneeling play offers increasing amounts of weight-bearing through hands/arms which helps them grow strength in shoulder girdles and practice alternating use of hands for weight-bearing in order to play with toys with other hand (practice for reciprocal crawling) ✋🤚

Sitting in kneel provides important proprioceptive input through lower legs/shins that helps prepare baby for the quadruped position of hands and knees crawling 👶

Add some small stepstools or a folded mat to your play area and see what big changes may come from introducing this new beneficial position💙

09/20/2025

Parents ask all the time how they can help their baby with sitting up independently. Focusing on floor skills (specifically those on their tummy) helps promote control in sitting more than anything.

Babies get “practice” sitting up more often than parents may realize…once baby has head control they are often sat up on parents’/grandparents’ laps with just light support around their belly.

Babies also get “sat” on laps facing caregivers to make faces, coo and babble back and forth, and have all the fun early conversations and bonding time. They sit (with support) in highchairs and Upseats to play and join family mealtimes.

For this reason, I generally do not “work on” sitting with baby in a sitting position—rather I work on strengthening baby’s core in full with all the floor skills you see above. I also regularly perform Pull to Sit transitions to reinforce neck and trunk flexor strength.

If your baby is able to do all the floor skills I’ve mentioned and still struggles with sitting independently (after age 7-8 months), reach out to a pediatric PT. We are here to help and can identify the component of this sentinel milestone that needs attention, then help you address it👶

09/05/2025

PTs love a good yoga/exercise ball - pretty much anything you do in any position on a ball guarantees the baby/child will be activating their core muscles 💪

But sometimes we will use a ball with very specific targeted goals in mind. In addition to the great sensory input & core engagement a ball brings, using it in certain ways can help a little one progress with skills they are struggling with on the floor.

Balls can be utilized from a very young age - even infants a few weeks old, with adequate support, can enjoy the view and proprioceptive and sensory input lying on their tummy on a gently rocking ball can provide👶

Once they are toddlers the shoulder and core strengthening continues with prone “walk-outs” as they roll themselves forward and use their hands to walk out and away from the ball til only shins are supported.

Pull that birthing ball back out and enjoy some of these fun ways to engage in therapeutic play with your baby - whether they are “working” on anything in particular or not 💙

08/31/2025

🇺🇸Happy Labor Day!🇺🇸
We will miss playing with all our friends tomorrow. Wishing you a safe and restful holiday weekend with family and friends - hope to see you all next week 💙

08/16/2025

A simple way to support baby’s continued gross motor progress from belly crawling (or pushing backward on their tummy) is by adding some height to their play space 📶

This could be any number of things….from the small stepstool here (which can later be used for toddlers to stand on while washing hands or brushing teeth🪥) to a folded gymnastics or nap mat or a sturdy diaper box.

Even better? A cushion pulled from the couch which also reveals an upholstered edge a little higher off the floor (but not as high as when cushion is in place) for baby to pull up on 🛋️

A simple addition like this adds not only visual attention to the novel item, but movement challenges that will help your baby grow in their strength, coordination, and balance 👶

08/14/2025

I recently had the privilege of being interviewed by VoyageAustin magazine for their Inspiring Stories series. What a joy it was to share my personal journey and the origin story of BabyMove 💙

Check it out for a little glimpse into the Momma behind BabyMove (& some adorable peeks at my own family, precious patients, & beloved dancers) - Link in bio ➡️

08/01/2025

Once your baby has mastered rolling and pivoting in prone, it’s time to start laying the foundation for those big upcoming skills of transitions and crawling👶

Some babies will push up fully on their arms with simple play area modifications of taller toys or vertical surface play, while others may need a little prompting.

Often just a couple episodes of providing those little “lifts” are enough to give your baby the deep joint proprioceptive experience and intriguing vestibular input of side to side movement to motivate them to attempt this again on their own.

Before you know it, side to side oscillations (& subsequent rolls belly to back) and baby planks are part of their new movement repertoire! Along with core and extremity strength, body awareness & motor control are going to skyrocket🚀

07/21/2025

One of baby’s earliest gross motor milestones is the pull to sit transition. A 4-month well child check-up with most pediatricians will include this test of baby’s neck and trunk flexor strength✅

Just as tummy time strengthens extensors, pulling baby to sit engages and strengthens flexors.

It’s the balance of strength between flexor and extensor muscle groups that will allow your baby to maintain a sidelying position and eventually to sit up independently🙌

3 Tips for Pull to Sit:
1. Start with baby reclined against your elevated legs instead of flat on the floor - baby should be at approximately a 45-degree angle📶
2. Support around shoulders when starting with younger babies 2-3 months old (you can keep a finger or two behind their head to support if needed) and only pull from hands/wrists when you feel baby pulling back so you know active muscles are protecting their tiny joint ligaments from being stretched🫳
3. After pulling baby up to fully upright sitting, slowly lower them back to starting position - a “reverse” pull to sit. You should see them trying to tuck chin to chest, working those little neck and ab muscles↩️

06/30/2025

The Sidelying position offers SO many benefits, requires no more than a rolled blanket or side of a boppy pillow to set up, and is generally well tolerated by most babies 👶

This position can be started from day 1 with appropriate support - younger babies may rest more heavily onto posterior support (they will be more upward-facing than the older baby in this video).

By alternating lying on right and left sides you provide baby not only relief from pressure on the back of their head (and equal counter pressure by switching sides) but also opportunities for bringing hands together, hands to mouth, early self soothing, and proprioceptive input for developing body awareness 👶

If you aren’t already incorporating sidelying into wake windows try adding it in - chances are your baby will love it (especially if you are lying on your side too on the floor facing them)💙

06/22/2025

Try this tip for those reluctant-to-let-go babies:

1️⃣ Start with baby in standing with the support of a sofa or wall behind them

2️⃣ Present toys just out of baby’s reach so they have to use weight shifts forward and back to get them

3️⃣ Slowly grow that distance so baby needs to take a step forward rather than just leaning forward & back

4️⃣ Be ready to catch uncontrolled falls forward & quickly reposition baby in standing to repeat activity, growing distance when ready

These short little forays forward without holding on, coupled with reassuring hugs, cheers, & quick repositioning after falls will soon lead to 1, 2, then even 4 or 5 steps on their own 💙

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