Tummy sleeping

[Mishy1234]

DS2 is 15 weeks and started rolling onto his tummy about a week ago. He can roll back, but there are times when he gets stuck and I have to turn him back over.

Today he's started to roll over onto his tummy to sleep. We co-sleep at night and I'm concerned he will start to want to sleep on his tummy then too.

Anyone had any experience of this and what did you do if anything? It just seems a bit early (for me!) for him to be doing this. His brother didn't start rolling until well over 6 months at which time it didn't concern me as much.

I don't think you've anything to be concerned about. Most children start to roll at this age.
If your already co-sleeping then I guess your aware of how to position blankets and pillows away from the top of his head. If he's strong enough to roll completely over then he'll have to bother moving his face away from any thing that stops him breathing comfortably.

My son slept on his belly from a very young age because he was really collicky and wouldn't sleep on his back at all after about 10 weeks. He was so tired one day and screaming in agony. I tried everything, and during the course of trying things, he was lying on his belly on our bed and just fell fast asleep and seemed much more comfortable that way.

I felt so guilty for letting him do it, and so did my research about the risks etc. I knew that in the past mums were encouraged to let their kids sleep on their bellies, so I wondered why (I know I slept on my belly,as was the advice in 1979, but my older siblings didn't) . Basically the 'back to sleep' campaign isn't backed by all health proffessionals as there are risks from it too. Babies can choke on their own vomit from sleeping on their back. This could have been a big risk for my son as he was very refluxy. 6 month old babies who sleep on their bellies have greater mobility, interaction and sleep longer than those who lie on their backs. This tends to even out by 18 months though.

I was still very anxious about the risks of cot death etc, but this is a non-smoking household, and he sleeps in his own cot, so I bought a new monitor that monitored his breathing, and just let him get on with it. There is a risk of babies suffocating because they can't lift their heads, but my wee man was (and still is) as strong as an ox, so I was pretty assured there. Still, I checked on him all the time.

I think the fact that the advice mothers are given in relation to EVERYTHING is so confusing and a lot of the time does nothing but makes mums feel incredibly guilty if it doesn't work for their baby. Every child is different. If you are worried, you can try and roll him back over, but if he's comfortable you should probably just give yourself a break.

my daughter slept always on her tum as she was extremely collicky reflux they said !!!! NO.! intolerance to milk so had to go on to soya and loo, end of all problems, BUT the mattresses were very different. Horsehair in fact so there was nothing soft for the baby to sink into. You could make sure that that part of the mattress has a lot of small holes in it even pout there by you. the other thing to do is to pout a soft rolled up towel along the babies back so that it cant roll onto its back and it really does help a collicky baby to be on its side. But as I've said before are we all really supposed to believe that all these babies being born have an under developed reflux thingy???? do try a change of milk. good luck