Rolling over in the night

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DD (13 months) has started rolling over in the night - typically between 4 and 6 - and calls out to be rolled back. She's often partly asleep during this, but sometimes wakes. She is well tucked in with her blanket and is in a sleeping bag.

Any tips? Do we need to get rid of the constraining bag so she can turn herself back over or might this make things worse? Is it a phase that might cease anyway?

Its all a bit new as she's a very good sleeper and (previously) very inactive in the night. Normally we pick her up in the morning in the same position we left her in the evening

You could try rolling up towels & placing them at either side of her under the sheet to restrict roling.

Rolling!

Thought about that, but I wondered if they needed to learn how to roll back at this age. Do they learn and, if so, does the sleeping bag hinder her? And how long might it take (she never rolled over at night before about 3 weeks ago, but seems to do it nightly now).

They all learn to roll back eventually, some quicker than others.

The sleeping bag can hinder rolling but a child can also get caught up in sheet/blankets/duvet.

... and now she's starting to sit up at stupid 'o' clock and not be able to lie back down! This is just a phase isn't it? Is there anything to do to ease her through it other than attaching her sleeping bag to her mattress?!

You may not like the sound of this, but the best thing you can do is leave her to deal with it herself. Even if she cries. She can and will learn to sort herself out, but going to her will only teach her that she can't. Definitely leave her in the sleeping bag - sleeping bags are seriously brilliant and solve a lot of problems. LOs can be completely mobile in sleeping bags without it disturbing their sleep. Without the bag they get uncovered and this is the one thing IME that they can't deal with themselves until a much older age.

I think that's the route we take generally, trying to let her settle herself. But if its after 5am it often ends in her waking completely and being unable to resettle. Oh well!

Prettycandles is right, give her a few minutes to try & work it out for herself but don't let her get into a frenzy!

Leave her to deal with it. My 9 mth old gets left when he sits up - he soon flops down! He also rolls over and sleeps on his tummy - I rolled him over when he first started doing it, but now he's old enough to roll back. Sounds like your dd has worked out a nice little way of getting mum's attention!

Well, hopefully she will learn sometime soon, either:

(a) how to get back down (or back onto her back)

or

(b) that there's not much point sitting up in the dark early hours, especially if you can't get back down again!

But of course, "you'll only get upset if you do that" is a bit of a forlorn hope at her age.

Oddly, she's been able to roll over since she was tiny and to sit up for a few months, yet she's only started doing it in the night for a week or two.