Rolling Baby (VIDEO)
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Baby Logan shows off his healthy development by rolling from his tummy to his back. University of Alberta researcher Johanna Darrah, a professor of physical therapy, says infants develop the ability to roll much the same today as they did 20 years ago when the "back to sleep" campaign was introduced and successfully reduced the occurrence of SIDS. Her research answers fears that the back to sleep campaign, which recommends putting babies to bed on their back instead of their stomach, would hurt infants' ability to roll from tummy to back and vice versa. "Infant gross motor development hasn't changed that much in 20 years," says Darrah. "The thought that babies first roll from their tummy to their back, before they go from their back to their tummy, does not appear to be the case. For most babies, they happen very close together."
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Virginia Quist
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