AIBU to think that 'flipping' a baby to help them sleep better sounds crazy?!

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So I just found a video on TT whilst scrolling where a mother believes that flipping her baby will help them sleep better?!

Video:

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(I don't want anyone to spread any hatred towards the mother please - I just want opinions, not hatred!)

I was reading the comments on the video and apparently this is an old wives tale that has worked for many people... personally I find this crazy (with all due respect to anyone that has tried this). Could it cause it not cause any damage to the baby?

This seems utterly ridiculous and yes, you could hurt your baby if you get it a bit wrong.

@HappierTimesAhead I was thinking that. I'd be too worried of a brain injury or any other injury for that matter!

Yes, especially because their necks are so fragile when they are young. I don't think the mother in that clip did her baby any harm but it seems risky. And there is no way this improves their sleep! I was almost suicidal with my daughter's lack of sleep and at that time I might have actually believed/hoped this might work 😔

Can't imagine it helps in the slightest. Also looks awkward as hell, I thought she was going to drop him!

I used to take DD to baby massage, and part of it was, at the end, picking her up by her ankles and then laying her back down on my lap - so similar - that didn't have any effect on her sleep at all, that I noticed. She definitely didn't nap much after the class.

I'd just sleep train.

Flipping a baby to improve sleep is ridiculous and makes no logical sense.

It looks really hard for her to do it safely so yea I’d say this really doesn’t look like a single thing to do with a tiny baby.

No it won’t damage a baby ffs. It spent 9 months tumbling around your womb. But it also won’t work. Pure luck if it does.

Yes, tumbling around a soft, squishy womb not being physically flipped over a hard floor. I think the risk is fairly minimal but, since we take the greatest care holding babies at any other time, I am not convinced it is entirely safe.

Visions of a baby being flipped like a pancake until I saw the video.
I can't see how it helps a baby to sleep longer either.

How much room is in your womb. My babies moved and wiggled and obviously turned head down but they didn’t tumble or flip. 😂

In amniotic fluid! in your uterus, in your body.

Well, it won't help the baby sleep, but you convince yourself anything works. My baby sleeps better in his crib now that I've started placing his head at the opposite end to mine.

Except of course he hasn't, it's just a coincidence.

No it won’t damage a baby ffs.

Might do if you drop it awkwardly because you are carrying out a stupid and awkward manouvre.

I don’t use TikTok for good reason, it’s full of shit, sometimes harmful shit. Likely this woman just trying to make money and coming up with this?

I haven’t seen the video but don’t flip babies, it’s common sense surely?

God some people are so stupid, doing anything for a bit of internet fame. Could so easily hurt the baby by twisting them.

So I saw this TikTok as well and didn’t believe it until I tried it!
My girl usually sleeps 8:30pm till 11:30pm then ends up in my bed from 11:30 till she wakes up which can be 6-8am but last night I thought I’d give it a go and I kid you not she slept in her cot from 8:30-9pm till 3:30am!!! 6 hours straight in her cot. Im giving it another go so we will see

There’s actually studies on it

I’m not going to say it definitely does work for sure cause it’s been 1 night but it seemed to work for me unless it was just a coincidence but my girl has been a bed sleeper for a while now and last night was her first night where she stayed in her cot for 6 hours asleep so I’ll take it as a win ( after we did a Roku-poly

I think it's more to do with giving babies vestibular stimulation which might help some sensory seeking type babies.

Who knows.... I'm 13 months deep with a hourly waking co sleeping child so I sympathise with people who will try anything lol