Using Baby Acrobatics if your baby has a diagnosed condition

Baby Acrobatics is a general movement program built for the typical, healthy baby. It is not a clinical or therapeutic program, and it does not replace the PT or OT care your baby is already getting. If your baby has a diagnosis, your pediatric PT or OT is the right place to start. They can see your baby, assess what's appropriate, and tell you what to do, what to change, and what to wait on. The program can't do that, because it's written for a general population rather than for one baby's situation.

Maybe you're here about hip dysplasia and a Pavlik harness, clubfoot casts, or torticollis. Maybe it's a VP shunt, Down syndrome, or cerebral palsy. Maybe it's reflux, a recent surgery or post-surgical cast, or prematurity with medical complications. Whatever brought you, the answer is the same: your clinician leads.

Plenty of parents in this spot still want to do something at home alongside their care team. That's a good instinct. The program fits that role well - as a pool of ideas you bring to your clinician, not a plan you run on your own.

How to use Baby Acrobatics alongside clinical care

1. See your PT or OT first. Get their read on where your baby is and what's appropriate before you start anything from the program.
2. Bring the program to the appointment. Open the Exercise Library in the app on your phone and scroll through it together. Most exercises have a short demo video, so your clinician can watch the actual movement and tell you what's a yes, what's a "wait until X," and what to skip for now.
3. Follow their call, not ours. For a diagnosed condition, your clinician's guidance overrides anything in the program. If they say wait, wait.
4. Loop back as your baby progresses. A "wait" can turn into a "yes" as healing or development continues. Re-check at each milestone, cast change, or device adjustment.

What to bring to the appointment

A short list makes the visit more useful:

• The specific exercises you're curious about. Pull them up in the Exercise Library so your clinician sees the demo video.
• Any current restrictions: a brace, cast, harness, shunt, or post-surgical limits on range of motion.
• What you've already been doing at home, if anything.
• Your questions about positioning, handling, and what's safe between visits.

Premature babies

If your baby was born early, set the program to use corrected age so the routine matches their stage. Enter the real birthdate, then mark the baby premature and add the gestational weeks. See premature and corrected age for the exact steps. This handles the age math, but it does not replace clinical guidance for any medical complications. The rule above still holds: your clinician leads.

If the diagnosis changes whether this is right for you

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When this doesn't apply

If you're wondering whether a symptom in a typically developing baby is worth a clinical visit (head shape, milestone timing, an asymmetry you've started noticing), see when to talk to your pediatrician or pediatric PT/OT.

If your question is about the general safety of an exercise rather than its fit for a diagnosed condition, see are these exercises safe?.