WIBU to put DD to sleep on her front in pram during daytime?

[emeraldgirl1]

She seems to absolutely hate being on her back. She has a lot of wind and is happiest when we wind her on her tummy.
At night we sleep her on her side wedged in with towels so she cannot roll over.
But she will simply not sleep on her back OR side in pram during the day. She gets horribly overtired and it is just impossible for me to get anything done (cooking, ironing, laundry) as she wakes and cries five mins after I put her on her back or side.
WIBU (or unsafe?) to put her on her front in her pram in daytime, watched at all times by me if course, so that I can iron, cook etc without having to stop and hold her for an hour at a time?
Will it mean she then refuses to sleep on her side at night do you think?
Anyone else done this?

Oh it looks like SIDS is the leading cause of death in infants under a year.

Rare but important...

your link is for the US,I was talking about the UK, whose back to sleep campaign results were more immediate.

in Ireland the rate has dropped by 76% since the back to sleep advice began. Do you think this is coincidence?

the top 3 risk factors for SIDS (in no order) are smoking in pregnancy/smoking around baby, not breastfeeding and sleeping position.

It never ceases to amaze me how untrained, non medical, non researcher etc people on here will advise against sensible guidelines backed up by immense research and years of proof of effectiveness. So stupid.

could you swaddle her and put her on her side ? bit of a compromise

Most of the babies in the SCBU my ds was in were laid to sleep on their tummies, mind you they were hooked up to all sorts of alarms, must be the most comfy position for them ( this was 12 years ago, don't know if they still do)

DD was on her tummy and side in scbu she still sleeps on her tummy arse-up at 15

valium not seen you in AGES you ok ?

I'm not going to get into the ins and out of risk factors and statistics (there is so much false information on this thread, you really are better to go onto official websites or call one of the organisations to get the full and correct information).

What I can tell you is that should you be one of the unlucky few who lose their child to this random syndrome then you will have every second of the rest of your life to think about it and, believe me, if you have done even one thing against the guidelines then you will hate yourself forever more and think 'what if' every single day.

For me it was putting an extra blanket on my son 14 years ago, realistically, I doubt that caused my son to die, but every day when I wake up and see his photo smiling back at me its like being stabbed i the heart wondering if I could still have had him here.

Its a pain in the backside when they don't sleep, I know it is, but this phase lasts such a short time, its better to have a few months of being knackered and having wrinkled clothes and takeaways than a lifetime of regret which is what I am living just now.

Hello you :)

I'm fine thanks except dh has the audacity to be working from home a lot now and hogging the computer!! I can post from my phone but I make so many typos my posts make no sense

how very dare he you need a tablet or laptop or something , I cant post from my phone either drives me daft

Missymoo, thank you for sharing your story. Very sorry to hear about your son.

I know! Bare faced cheek! I can't quite justify the expense of a tablet....

Give me time

Missymoo, so so sorry for your terrible loss.

You know it's not your fault. Putting an extra blanket on a child is what we do. Thinking of you xxx

missymoo so sorry to hear that. God but it's awful.

Thank you for your sympathies

The rational part of me knows that putting that blanket on him wasn't the cause of his death but there will always be that little voice in my head wondering, I wouldn't wish that feeling on anyone