Nervous about Tummy Sleeping

MY boys have been rolling over for about a month now and they are quite the pros at it!!! I have never had a problem with them being mobile in their cribs at night...until now.

I got up to check on the boys last night and Michael was out of his positioner and on his tummy with his face buried in the crib - it wasn't to the side, but face down. It scared the Begeebies out of me!!! I turned him back onto his back but he kept going to his tummy.

Here is my question: If they get in a position that they can't breathe will it wake them up? And can they get back to their backs?

We are moving this weekend, and I am setting up the second crib, so that should help.

 

By the time they are old enough to roll over themselves, they are old enough to sleep on their tummies. Olivia and my twins were tummy sleepers by 5 months of age.

 

Yes if they can roll over they can sleep on their bellies. It is super scary at first, I know I checked on them several times. They do fine, it is us mothers who are a wreck.

 

All I can tell you is what we did. We allowed ours to start sleeping on their tummies at 4 months. Mine were able to lift themselves up on their arms and we trialed it by letting them sleep on tummies during naps. Mine have been tummy sleepers ever since. They have slept better ever since also.

 

My ped said the same thing... once they are old enough to roll they are old enough to sleep on their tummies. My dd still scares me though cause she sleeps ON her face!! She's never had any problems, and she's almost 9.5 mnths but geesh how comfortable can she be?!?! She wakes up with the funniest marks all over her face from her pacifier or her hands under her face.

It's a scary milestone but they all seem to go through it!

 

I am dealing with the same thing right now. My son rolls to his stomach as soon as I put him down. He also scootches all over the place and ends up pressed right against the side of the crib. I did take the bumper pad off, but I don't think there's too much else you can do once they hit this milestone.

 

Mine started rolling to their tummy to sleep around 4.5 months... Nothing I could do to stop it. I still put them down on their back though.

I'd get rid of the sleep positions though, at this age it seems more a hazard than anything else.

 

Mines have been sleeping on their tummies since three and a half months. They started out doing it during the daytime naps. After I was confident that they could move their heads from side to side. They began sleeping on their tummies at night.

 

Ditto pps - if they can roll onto their tummies, they're safe (and there's nothing you can do about it anyway!). You might want to take the positioners out of the crib, though, since they are a suffocation hazard.

 

Jack still sleeps on his back since he has no interest in rolling. James on the other hand usually flips to his belly during the night. I always put him down on his back, but in the morning he is always on his belly. The funny thing is I never catch him rolling during the day, only at night. In fact I've never actually seen him do it, so I only know he can because I find him in different positions.

 

Mine arent rolling onto their tummies yet though I dont think it will be long. Ive read that once they can do this then the risk old SIDS decreases greatly. I´m sure I´ll be worried too when the time comes!

 

I guess I'm the minority here, but my babies have been rolling over for over a month now and I still flip them over at night. They do roll over onto their tummies, but as soon as they do I flip them back onto their backs. Eventually they go to sleep on their backs. My Pedi says that if they have colds or any sort of stuffy nose they should not sleep on their tummies.

 

Bad I know but mine have been tummy sleepers since about a month and a half they would scream til I rolled them over.....heck the way I looked at it was when I was a baby they told the mothers to put babies on their tummies to sleep well heck I'm alive and so are tons of ppl my age so if thats the only way they sleep well at least they are sleeping

 

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heck I'm alive and so are tons of ppl my age so if thats the only way they sleep well at least they are sleeping


This argument doesn't really work though... Sure, you're alive, but all the babies who died of SIDS are not. Some research claims that it's gas coming from mattresses that cause SIDS... that's why bumpers are bad (bad air circulation), why fans help, and why tummy sleeping is not recommended (it goes straight to their nose).

I like the last issue of babytalk, where they said that 25% of people still put babies on their tummies, and if there really is something people should not do for their babies safety, even if it means less sleep, it's that.