A 3-day-old newborn left his mother shocked after she started lifting her head and crawling in front of her.
Samantha Elizabeth took to TikTok and shared a video of her baby girl crawling and lifting her head in her incubator.
“POV: your daughter is 3 days old and is lifting her head and crawling and talking,” she wrote alongside the video.
According to Baby Center, it usually takes three to six months for a baby to develop their neck muscles and support their own head.
A report written by health advisor Joanne Lewsley read: “Your baby’s neck muscles are fairly weak when they’re born. If you pull them up gently by their hands into a sitting position their head will flop back because their neck muscles can’t support it.
“For the first few months, they’ll rely on you using your hands to support their head and neck when you hold them.”
But for a 3-day-old newborn, that’s impressive super powers!
Samantha’s video has been viewed more than 50 million times, with people flocking to the comments section to express their disbelief.
“What type of baby is that?” one jokingly asked.
“She gonna drive you home back from hospital,” another said.
“Babies born after 2020 are definitely built different,” a third commented.
“When I see babies doing this it makes me think they are evolving because they know they gotta get moving faster,” someone else added.
In other videos, the proud mother shared the things her newborn was already doing, including rolling around, smiling a lot, and even trying to stand up.
One person commented: “She’s trying to get up to ask you about your car insurance.”
@samantha_elizabeth__ I still cant belive this happened… #baby #babytiktok #crawlingbaby #talkingbaby #tummytime #3daysoldbaby #3daysold #nyilahdaise ♬ original sound – samantha_elizabeth__
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They better get her the hell out of that isolet! She’s going to fall out!
Crawling like this is a natural reflex newborns have. The doctors test for this and stepping motions. Occasionally you will see a baby with stronger neck muscles but they cannot sustain the head up position very long. (Retired nursery nurse)
I absolutely 💯 agree with you
Both my kids did this as well over 20 yrs ago.
when you said babys that wrer born in 2020 thats when covid came maybe the mothers who had the vaccine for covid when pregnant had some affect on babys born that year
Is this a Covid 19 baby 3days old I don’t know, congratulations on that one 🍷🍷🍾🍾
My daughter didn’t talk, but she held her head up and would crawl forward. This was in 1980, my mother was shocked by it.
My son was born 6 days early and was born emergency C section. He spent 3 days in NICU. He had a hole in his esophagus. It closed up. He was crawling in NICU. They put bandaids on his knees and elbows. He was a strong little bugger, still is.
My daughter crawled like that too .she didn’t try to talk til she was 2 months. , trying to stand at 3 months, and wanted to stay up all night trying to play with the designs in our furniture .
My baby was born four weeks early. He “crawled” in the bassinet and would put his face in the plastic liner. So I put him in the baby bed and he would crawl to the end and get his head right up next to the vinyl bumper that we used in beds 45 years ago. Even if I put him at the end of crib with his feet touching the bumper pad, when o would go check on him, he would he clear at the opposite end with his head in the corner of the bumper pad. Many years later I read that premies will crawl in the bed and try to get their head up in the corner to feel secure like they were in the uterus. By the time he was four weeks old(when he was originally due) he stopped crawling and would stay wherever I placed him.
That baby is more than 3 days old . People believe anything now days.
I agree
My baby is 2 week old n she’s doing the same thing so I believe. My baby is even rolling.