Just to let him sleep on his side?

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After twenty minutes of wriggling and outrageously loud grunting (in his sleep!), DS2 (7 weeks) has finally managed to roll on his side. He's been trying for the last three nights, waking everyone else in the process, but this is the first time he's actually managed it. Do I applaud his efforts and get some sleep, or put him back on his back and restart the madness? DS1 only ever slept on me, so I'm unsure what to do with a baby in an actual crib...

Pic for general squishyness .

Can't think straight on the sleeping issue but.... gorgeous baby!

He is so squishy gorgeousness

May I suggest just posting him to me to solve the dilemma?

He's gorgeous. If he can get himself there I'd let him be. I'm an old hummer who remembers the "back or side " advice - it's the stomach sleeping that's most risky iirc.

No help to your original post but he is so cute........my ovaries are screaming at me.

OMG that is one seriously cute baby!

Yeah, just let him sleep on his side - he looks so comfy!

Oof, he's so squishy, I just want to roll him!!

Hes so cute, makes me want another even though DD is only 7 months!

I'm afraid you can't leave him there, he needs to come to me for some snuggles. He is utterly adorable! My ovaries just burst

Fwiw, once mine could move themselves I left them to it.

Another oldie - DS was born at the beginning of the Back to Sleep campaign. The advice was not to put them on their tummy (previous advice during the 80s had been to put them on their tummy, although goodness knows why - it seems a totally unnatural position for a curly newborn). Therefore it was back or side. He was put on his side in hospital, with a rolled blanket down his back to keep him there.

When DDs were born 2 years later, the advice had been modified to back - along with a whole load of other stuff - as it was an easier message to convey. DTDs were put on their sides in SCBU and we continued this.

Once they could move about, they flipped onto their backs, then later slept on their tummies with bums in the air.

When I was born in the 60s, you put babies on alternate sides to make sure they did not go wonky (not sure of the truth of this )

Awwww you need to pick him up and squishy snuggle him of course, rendering the whole question null and void

Aaawww bless him!

All three of mine used to sleep like this.