A little pressured from the app’s milestone guidelines

I sometimes feel like this app is stressing me out and pressuring me on baby’s milestones and development. Altho i understand different baby, different pace. Like everyday i would read the description on baby’s supposed “progress” and it stresses me out. I know it’s just a rough guideline but i can’t help but to feel like sometimes baby is lagging behind. He’s still small, 3 months old. He does better tummy time now, can hold his head upright a few mins before he gets tired or cranky. But when he’s sitting on our lap, his head tend to still be fragile and fall to the front, if you get what i mean. Means his neck strength still quite weak. However the app says my baby has to have a better neck strength and would able to control head when sitting on lap or during tummy time he should be lifting his shoulders too, doing mini push ups. #firsttimemom #worried

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Nah dont worry, my 3 month old can't even lift his head for more than 3 seconds before he loses all motivation and just lie there. Physiotherapy doctor tell me he is still fine, just need to practice more TT with him. Its not like your baby cannot lift his head. He can lift for minutes! That means his neck has no issues, just less stamina, or just lazy. You got adult males who go through NS rigorous training and still fail IPPT, what more your LO is just a baby.

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