Rolling over and Waking at night - any advice

[LEMONADEGIRL]

Can anyone offer any advice please as my DD 5mtns has started rolling over but is doing it in her sleep and waking up stuck on her front - this can happen up to five times a night and each time she wakes she wants a feed as well as she seems hungry

This is worse than when she was a newborn and am finding it exhausting as I have a 3 year old DS as well

Any advice would be most appreciated

I would just make sure she can't pull the sheets over her.
When she wakes, I would just go in and place your hand on her tummy to settle her if you can. Lots of shushing etc and see if she goes back off. It's tricky to tell as she might actually be waking too because she's hungry (only a month to weaning etc) so therefore might be rolling as she's not heavily asleep due to be being hungry.
Could you top her up (dream feed if necessary) before you go to bed and see if that works?

thanks for your reply - have tried dream feed but seems to make little difference

Trying to hold out for 26weeks nearly there as she is 23 weeks on tuesday just getting so tired and desperate too

Will try shush pat etc as worried about getting her into habit of too many night feeds

Wish she would learn soon how to roll herslef off her tummy

What about one of those sleeping wedge thingies to stop her rolling all the way over??

My ds starting doing this but I figured he was using the bars for extra leverage! I got cot bumpers (you can get airflex or some similar name if worried about old fashionned ones) and that's stopped him. Might be worth a try?

Is it actually the rolling that is causing the waking? Or is it the hunger?

If it's the hunger, perhaps you could try weaning a little earlier (after all all babies are different and what's a couple of weeks if she's ready?), or dream feed with formula? I've just started dream feeds with my DD and the first night was the same as she had been (8pm bed, 11pm dream feed, 2am feed, 5.45 feed, up at about 7.30-8am) but since then she's only woken at about 3.30-4am for a feed (and these have been uber quick feeds) and been satisfied until breakfast feed. Its only been 6 days, so I'm going to give it a week or two to see if the trend continues...

My DD (16wks) rolls all around the cot, kicks the covers off and generally you can put bets on to see where she will end up after a sleep! However, thankfully, she doesn't seem to wake up because of it.