Putting ds on his tummy - am I ok to do this?

[Miaou]

Ds has a whingy period about this time of night where nothing seems to satisfy him and he cries for about 20 mins (hardly cries at all the rest of the time!). Anyway, I've just discovered this evening that if I lay him on his tummy on his playmat he is as happy as larry. He can lift his head and look from side to side to see what's going on.

I know "tummy time" is encouraged when not sleeping but is ds a bit young for this? Or does it matter what age they are? He is four weeks btw.

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Quite well rickman, although he has not developed any kind of feeding routine yet. I am bfing on demand and hoping that he will work it out for himself! He's a happy little fella (apart from just now!!)

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lol! good job I'm not one of life's planners, then!

Am looking forward to being able to predict (vaguely) when he will sleep though ... during the night would be good...

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hehehe. Don't worry I am a master of managing on little, and broken, sleep. However slightly more than the two hours I got last night would be good!!

Our ds was very colicy. Slept on his tummy the best right from the start. We had one of those motion sensor monitors, so never worried about him sleeping on his tummy (The Hi Sense One ) - I can't recommend this brand highly enough, and am sure it saved DS's life.

BTW we never had a false alarm, and never had an alarm when he slept on his tummy. But at about 6 weeks the alarm went off (he was sleeping on his back and had none of the SIDS risk elements). He had stopped breathing and had gone blue. If it had not been for the alarm alerting me, I would never have woken up. Of course it is possible that he may have started breathing on his own again, but I am glad that is not a risk I had to take.

Dd slept on her tummy from about 6 weeks. Up until then she was waking hourly. She was able to move her head about at this stage. We also had a monitor.