6m old rolls and wakes herself crying, help!!

[LucyBKI]

My little one has always been a good sleeper until we moved her into her own cot. She’d previously been in the Next2Me but kept rolling so we used the surround of the Sleepyhead under her sheets to buffer her and she loved sleeping like that.

We moved her into her own room with the N2M but then decided to move her into her cot with no sleepyhead. She has been getting so upset when she ends up on her stomach, she can self settle but not when on her tummy. She goes through one sleep cycle and wakes up. Naps have become really short again (felt like we’d just got those sorted). She’s usually a happy and content baby but the disturbed sleep is really affecting her mood in the day.

I’m 50/50 about putting the Sleepyhead back in the cot as I know she’ll get a much better night’s sleep and naps. Or do we persevere with it as I’m worried we’ll never wean her off it and her sleep with suffer long term. It was so hard seeing how upset she gets on her front, last night she was so hard to settle and I’ve never seen her like it before.

I just worry we’re prolonging the inevitable or is she still a little young and we could wait a couple more months? Help please, did anyone else have this problem, how did you resolve it?

I used a couple of towels rolled up under the sheet each side of my DD.
Give it a go, means your DD will still get used to sleeping on just the cot mattess but without the disruption of rolling.
Start with them just each side and you can slowly move them out for her to learn to roll back eventually

Thanks, we will try the towels. What happens when you eventually took the towels out with your DD? It seems more the shock of her landing on her front waking her up, she can roll back and can go round and round across the room now but I think it’s the shock of her landing on her front when she’s only ever been on her back.