spend too little time playing in this way. Andrea Vaughan explains how
her setting has been working to increase parent awareness.
Everton Nursery School and Family Centre in Liverpool has developed a Tummy Time play programme for local parents to combat early signs of delay and later developmental problems in their children.
The Lullaby Trust's Back to Sleep campaign, in 1991, successfully encouraged parents to lay their babies to sleep on their backs, rather than their tummies, to reduce the risk of cot death. An unintended consequence of the campaign, however, is that many babies nowadays spend little time on their stomachs and miss out on this developmentally crucial form of play.
In 2006, the Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists reported that only a fifth (22 per cent) of babies under six months old experienced regular time on their tummy.
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