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DS, who has just turned 1 has just started to roll over onto his tummy in his cot and go to sleep. I am inclined to let him tummy sleep, but DH is insisting on turning him back over (and waking him up most times in the process).
So . . . . When did you let your LO tummy sleep?
Now :) DD has good head and neck control, and some nights it's the only way she'll go down for a sleep. Probably one might out of a week she'll sleep on her tummy, and some naps. It helps get her wind up too. I reckon one year old should be fine :)
6 weeks. She was such a bad sleeper then one day i put her down on her belly to answer the phone came back she was sound asleep and slept for 6 hours straight like that so i just let her do it. She now only sleeps on her back so i just go with what she wants to do.
3 of mine slept on their tummies from about 2 weeks of age.
Dd3 hates it and won't go to sleep like that.
I agree that 1 is definately fine PZ. :) DH is driving me nuts Lol.:
when bub can roll over by themselves, i reckon they are ok to sleep however they want. My LO slept on her back as a little bub but from about 9 months, slept on her tummy with her bum up in the air.
He's asleep on his tummy right now :) DH is at work obviously so I'm just gonna let him go and see how well he sleeps.
Hehe for some reason I imagine your DH creeping in with a stern look on his face and turning your DS over :rofl:
As soon as they could roll themselves onto their tummy by themselves. I always put them down on their backs, but if they rolled onto their tummies, I left them sleep like that. My kids were all wrapped until 8 - 9 months so they slept on their backs pretty much until then. SIDS guidelines say to try and prevent them sleeping/rolling onto their tummies until after six months (wrapping and sleeping bags can help prevent them rolling earlier). So 12 months should be fine :)
ETA: If you want the SIDS link for your DH, I can post it for you :)
Yep when bub could roll over himself etc i let him sleep where he fell so to speak.
He is still mostly a tummy sleep now at 3.5y (like his mumma, :lol:)
Good idea JustMe. I'll search for the guidelines and show DH :)
I guess we've been pretty lucky that even though DS has been mobile for ages, he's never really rolled in his cot til now. He's obviously just realised that he likes to sleep on his tummy. Gawd, imagine my DH if DS was doing this ages ago lol.
Marta has been sleeping on her tummy from the moment she could roll over.
When DS went into his cot at 6months I also stopped wrapping him. He instantly flipped over onto his tummy which did freak me out and I kept turning him onto his back for a couple of nights. But then I figured that he can roll and felt okay about it. Even now at 2 he is a tummy sleeper. So am I!
When they could roll.
Both were in grobags by this time, not wrapped. I always put them down on their back though, if they rolled, they could roll back.
Ds1 was a tummy sleeper. Now they both sleep on their side.
Now, at 6 months. DD2 has decided she wants to sleep on her tummy. I think I stopped worrying the same time with DD1. She was a terrible sleeper though so I really didn't care how she slept as long as she did, LOL.
For the life of me I cannot find anything that mentions the "until after 6 months" bit. Would love it if you could post me the link to where you found it Justme.:
when she wanted to and was strong enough to get out of the sleeper thingy that stopped her from doing so. i think she was about 9-10 months when she started doing this, i worried for a week or 2, but she was fine, and was able to roll and had good head control so i just let it be. i had a sensor pad monitor too so that helped ease my mind a bit
If they can push themselves up and roll, then it should be fine (I guess). I've never bothered moving them back once they put themselves there.
Now that my DD is mobile I let her sleep however she chooses. If she falls asleep on her tummy I leave her there. If she falls asleep and I put her to bed I always put her on her back but when I put her to bed awake she will often move around in bed and fall asleep on her tummy. If they can hold their heads up on their own then I think the risk of suffocating is decreased. Once they're rolling, crawling etc they will sleep how they choose. I've never thought to move her once she's put herself to sleep a certain way.
http://www.sidsandkids.org/wp-conten...ping14ppa1.pdf
Go to page five ... there is one paragraph on it and it says this:
Should still be enough to put your DH's mind at ease :):
Older babies can turn over and move around the cot. Put them on the back but let them find their own sleeping position. The risk of SIDS in babies over six months is extremely low.
when DD could roll onto her tummy on her own, and roll back, we removed the sleep positioner.
Four months. He refused to sleep any other way one night and that was that. He was able to roll both ways and held his head up well so I tried not to worry too much... First few nights were a bit nerve wracking tho, I felt like I was doing something illegal putting him on his belly.
8 months ds started rolling onto his tummy but with his bum up in the air not flat and he head is turned to one side so I wasn't worried. But he rarely sleeps on his back, he has been on his side since birth as we never wrapped him.
Thanks for your replies everyone, and for the link JustMe. I showed it to DH and so I think he wll let DS sleep in his chosen position in peace now lol.
Once a child can roll from front to back and back to front, then it is really quite pointless (imho) rolling them back. I believe, the major concerns with SIDS and tummy sleeping is baby not having the strength to turn their head.
Can I ask, how does you DH maintain the back sleeping during the night? Surely bub must roll over lots during the night.
5 months. She only does it for day sleeps. At night she sleeps on her back and does not move (her arms flail a bit, but she doesn't roll)
Exactly what my DS did too. He loves sleeping on his belly now, just like his mama :):
DD1 slept on her tummy from birth. That is just how she slept best, for longest.
DD2 slept on her tummy for a week, from 4days old, then decided she didn't really like it slept on her back again. She nows rolls in the cot and it will wake her up.
There is absolutely no reason why at that age bubs cannot stay on his tummy, he rolled himself there, can control his head, etc. Let him be.
my baby son has been sleeping on his tummy since he was born. He is 3 months now and he will only sleep on his back in his reclining chair. My doctor advised me to let him sleep the way he liked
About 4 months. DD started rolling over by then, so we put her in a sleeping bag and she'd automatically rollover and go to sleep. I used to roll her back on her back, but she'd wake, so I left her to sleep how she could in the end.