Sleeping on tummy...

[seandrea]

It's good to know there are other tummy sleeping babies out there...

While in hospital they could only get her to sleep on her side, and once I got her home she would only sleep on her tummy. Wakes herself up & throws a fit every few minutes when on her back.

So for the sake of my sanity & her comfort I threw sids recomendations out the window & started putting her on her tummy & after I did some some research I felt better about the tummy sleeping & found there were two scientists that did some research into sids:

Prevent Cot Death
Every day many babies around the world die from cot death. In Australia, between 130-150 babies die each year from cot death. However, research now shows that simple precautions can prevent cot death.

CAUSE OF COT DEATH
Two scientists, Dr Jim Sprott in New Zealand and Mr Barry Richardson in England, have proved that cot death is caused by gases generated by fungal activity on compounds of phosphorus, arsenic and/or antimony which are present in many baby mattresses and other items of baby bedding.

SOLUTION
The solution is to wrap your baby’s cot mattress with a strictly specified mattress cover which prevents the gases from reaching the baby; and to use over the wrapped mattress specified bedding which is not capable of generating the gases concerned.

“Mattress-wrapping for cot death prevention” has been publicised nationwide in New Zealand for the past 8 years. During that time a very large number of New Zealand babies have slept on mattresses wrapped in specially formulated slip-on polyethylene mattress covers. These mattress covers (which were designed by Dr Sprott and are called BabeSafe covers) are now in use in a number of countries.

There has been no reported cot death – anywhere in the world – on any mattress wrapped in accordance with Dr Sprott’s mattress-wrapping specifications.

Now she happily sleeps on her own wrapped new mattress on her tummy & we both sleep much better for it!

[Ktb]

It has been great to read everyones comments. Ava is 9 weeks old.and has been sleeping really well at night on her side but has been very unsettled during the day. I tried her on her tummy out of desperation and she sleeps really soundly. She is able to lift her head but can't quite roll - is this a problem as I too am Paranoid about the SIDS thing. She does let me know when she has had enough...