To increase physical activity and decrease sedentary
behavior, the IOM (2011) guidelines call for more daily
opportunity for infants to move freely both indoors and
outdoors, spend time on the ground engaging in adult–infant
interactions, and, for babies under 6 months of age, to
experience more “tummy time” (time in the prone position).
Additionally, the plan calls for limiting the long term use of
confining baby equipment such as car seats, strollers,
bouncer seats and playpens. In his award-winning book,
entitled Last Child in the Woods (2008), Robert Louv
observed that infants around the globe are increasingly being
raised more indoors than outdoors and are spending more
time being contained in smaller spaces. He points out that
infants are spending more time in “car seats, high chairs, and
even baby seats for watching TV” (p. 35).
To increase physical activity and decrease sedentary
behavior, the IOM (2011) guidelines call for more daily
opportunity for infants to move freely both indoors and
outdoors, spend time on the ground engaging in adult–infant
interactions, and, for babies under 6 months of age, to
experience more “tummy time” (time in the prone position).
Additionally, the plan calls for limiting the long term use of
confining baby equipment such as car seats, strollers,
bouncer seats and playpens. In his award-winning book,
entitled Last Child in the Woods (2008), Robert Louv
observed that infants around the globe are increasingly being
raised more indoors than outdoors and are spending more
time being contained in smaller spaces. He points out that
infants are spending more time in “car seats, high chairs, and
even baby seats for watching TV” (p. 35).
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