10mo wants to be on tummy in bed but screams the house down.. help!

[Nataz27]

Someone please give me some advice, I'm really struggling with my dd. She has just learnt to roll over, although not always back again. Anyway, when I put her down to go to sleep she flips herself over straight away them screams and I spend the next 20 mins turnng her back over several times before she finally goes to sleep.

How can I get her to either sleep on her front happily or stay on her back.

She's also discovered how to have a major paddy at the smallest thing.

How old is she? If she's only just learnt to do it, it won't be long before she can roll both ways and sleep where she wants to.

Have you tried rolling up bedding and putting it either side of her so she can't roll?

Is she hitting the side of the cot when she flips over? Tom used to flip over one way and we had to position him slightly off centre in the cot, so he could flip over without hitting himself! He used to try and flip over in his moses basket!

Shes 10mo, I havent tried the rolled up bedding but shes in a sleeping bag with a sheet pulled tight over.

Since writing this this morning she can now roll both ways!!

She settled this evening lying on her side, so I hope things might be better in future.

Erm, by second son was rolling on to his tummy at two months. We managed to keep him mostly on his side and back until four months but after that he was too strong and too active. The HV said there was nothing we could do! I don't know the details of the science but I would have thought ten months was safe enough.

ugh - i remember a very long two weeks during which I constantly had to go in and flip over my hysterical 8 month old son (he couldn't do it himself in the cot even thought he could on the floor!). Eventually he figured it out, and I didn't have to flip him anymore. Your dd will figure it out soon too...