Why your baby needs the award-winning Welcome Home Newborn Yoga Mat!

Our Welcome Home Newborn Yoga Mat is a 2025 Good Housekeeping Parenting award winner! Find out why it’s the perfect place for your little one’s earliest tummy time sessions.

What is tummy time?

Tummy time is a commonly used term to describe putting an infant face down on a hard surface, forcing them to lift their head using their own strength. This simple exercise strengthens their neck, back, and shoulder muscles, and is the precursor to many developmental milestones. It even helps prevent flat spots on their heads! It is so effective that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that infants do this exercise daily, starting at just a few days old.  With the health benefits irrefutable, tummy time has become an essential part of any modern baby’s daily routine. 

What makes tummy time challenging?

Think about being plopped face down on a hard surface, without the strength to lift your body up. You’re stuck there with nothing to see, your nose squished, wondering when someone will come to rescue you. Doesn’t sound fun, does it?! This is why tummy time often ends (or starts) in tears, screams, protests, attempts to roll over and escape, as tired parents try to encourage their little ones to lift their tiny heads and do their very first cobra poses. 

How do we make tummy time more fun?!

Parents are the experts of making boring or hard things fun! I’ve seen parents use toys, games, songs, facial expressions, even food, as motivation to keep their baby on the mat! But, what if the mat did the work for you?

Smartbaby Decor’s Welcome Home Newborn Yoga mat is scientifically designed to be visually exciting to infants. It’s made to be easily seen by developing eyes, capture your baby’s attention, and pique their curiosity. The result? Longer tummy time sessions, reduced tears, and eventually, stronger neck muscles. Not only do tummy time sessions get easier, but your baby’s visual development gets a boost too! The pattern is designed to increase attention spans and improve visual skills like fixation, tracking, and focusing, all while getting those required tummy time minutes in. The anonymous parent testers for Good Housekeeping unanimously praised this mat, with one calling it “a fantastic alternative to large, expensive activity gyms. It offers exactly what you need for the first few months.”

Here are some amazing features of this super charged mat: 

1. An end-to-end design that places the scientific pattern at the perfect viewing angle and distance for newborn vision

2. Made of the same material as scuba gear and printed with Oeko Tex Standard 100 inks

3. Doubles as a diaper changing pad since it’s wipeable and washable

4. Safety tested to be CPSIA compliant for safe use in ages 0m+

5. Easily stored with included hook and loop straps

6. Perfectly sized for newborns and preemies 

7. Designed in the US, and made by hand in London, UK

8. Packaged in recyclable materials and arrives via a carbon neutral shipping carrier

Tips and extras:

With the design built into the mat, parents don’t have to prop up cards, books, toys, or snacks to keep their little yogi motivated! However, added stimulation, interaction, and fun, can still help! We suggest using this thick, spongy, and comfy mat as your baby’s go-to yoga spot, then add toys, peek-a-boo, books, or songs for added fun whenever you like.

You won't find a product like this anywhere else, with one of the parent testers at Good Housekeeping saying, “I’m honestly surprised we don’t see more of these on the market.” It's the perfect developmental essential for your baby and an amazing gift for any parent to be! 

The Welcome Home Newborn Yoga Mat is available to purchase exclusively at Smartbaby Decor, get yours today!