How to stop baby (13 weeks) moving 90 degrees in his cot and hitting head!

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One of my twins manages to rotate himself 90 degrees anticlockwise while asleep in his gro bag.
This means he goes from being feet to foot of bed, to a position where he hits his head on the slats at the side of the cot bed. He then wakes up earlier than he would have otherwise.
Any ideas on how to stop this. I'm a bit nervous of cot bumpers due to SIDS association

I don't think there's anything you can do about it. They only get more mobile. I never used cot bumpers for the same reason and just let them get on with it.

I think the feet to foot of bed thing is mainly important to stop baby going under blanket and suffocating. As you are using a grobag I would try not to worry about it.

I've had a similar problem just start with my 5mo rolling over onto his belly in the cot but then getting upset because he can't work out how to roll back. So, during the day I'm putting him on his playmat for a lot of the time in the hope that he'll figure out the 'whole' roll fairly soon so it won't cause him an issue when he's in the cot.

I guess if you can give him as much floor time as possible during the day then he'll learn new ways of shifting/rolling around to help prevent him getting stuck at night.

In the meantime, if he tends to favour turning in one direction you could put that side of him close to the side of the cot and it will give him less room to manouvre (sorry can't spell, too early!) in that direction.

My 4 month old does this. Was a pain at first but now she seems to have somehow worked out how to fit herself through a space that is narrower than she is long, and turn herself the full 180 degrees (seems to involve putting her legs through the bars and pivoting on her bum - all in her grobag!).

All I can say is that it does get better!

We've just invested in some things a bit like bumpers bur made of stuff that is breathable and which do up really tight with velcro outside the cot rather than ties. They are called airflow or similar and got them on the JoJo Maman website.

was it these Mrs reynolds?
www.jojomamanbebe.co.uk/sp+breathablebaby-mesh-liners-in-bumpers+b1843

Put.him down to bed sideways in the cot? Then through the night he will turn lengthways and not bump?

Hi. Link not working on my phone but looks like them. First use last night and they were good - they're long enough for DS' cotbed but should fit a normal cot too. DS is not quite 13wks but is able to roll back to front in his sleep (weirdly not when awake though yet..).

I don't use cot bumpers but have the mesh Velcro ones instead as mentioned above. They're great as DS used to sleep right against the side with mouth against them. He is now 18ms and always bashing his head during night but seems to survive!