Hi Everyone,

Long time turker, infrequent poster here but in some need of some advice.

Will (12 weeks old) is a relatively good sleeper and in fact has already moved to sleeping in a grobag (he was 10lb 10oz at birth and is still a big boy that easily breaks out of muslins), and occaisionally sleeping unwrapped. However, since birth he has favoured sleeping with his head turned to his left and as a result has slight flattening on that side.

Our MCHN early on recommended doing tummy time to address this plus having him on his right side when playing (both of which we do lots of). He seems able to move his head in both directions yet when he sleeps still favours the left side. We even moved his toys from one side of the cot to the other with no luck. We suspect he prefers sleeping to the left because the door to his room is on that side and we mostly approach his cot from that side IYKWIM. We spoke to his paedetrician at 6 weeks and were advised to not be too concerned.

Now this week I have had 2 other MCHN's (my normal one is away so saw a diff one when I did a weight check this week plus our mothers group is still run by a MCHN) comment on his head. As a result I feel like I haven't done enough to address the problem (which in itself is a separate issue ).

One of them suggested that we place him to sleep at the other end of his cot - that is his feet are now at the head of the cot. This does seem to make him lie with his head to the right, which further supports our theory about where the door to his room is etc.

The problem we are having is he doesn't seem happy lying in that direction. He is a lot more grizzly than normal, needs the dummy and his music on more etc. He also "scoots" himslf around the cot, regardless if he is in his grobag or is he just placed in the cot with a sheet over him.

Admittidly I have only started placing him in the new direction since yesterday afternoon, however was wondering has anyone tried this before, did they have any success with it and should I persevere?

Sorry about the rambling mess - hopefully it makes sense to someone!

Cheers
Em