Baby uncomfortable sleeping on back

[LittleEwe]

My son is nearly 8 weeks and has trouble sleeping on his back.

At night I hold him upright and burp him for 15 minutes after each feed.
I put him down to sleep on his back and he starts grunting and squirming for 10 minutes until he gets to a deep sleep.
45 minutes later when he comes out of deep sleep, he starts grunting and squirming in his sleep again and this time it is worse, he might cry as well.
Occasionally he will go to deep sleep again, but usually wakes up from the discomfort.
We start the whole cycle again. On bad nights he might not go to deep sleep at all.
In the day we let him sleep on his front as we can watch him and he can sleep peacefully for several hours.

Is this something that will just get better (and soon, I can’t take many more months of it)? Or is there something I should do to fix it? Thanks for any help you can give!

Hey, did you get to the bottom of this? My DD is 3 months and has always had this behaviour but she wakes herself up with it every time we put her down!

They do sleep better in their front. That's the danger in some ways - they don't rouse as easily and that increases SIDS risk.

This is the same as my three week old. How did you get around this? I just cannot get to settle on back.

did you find solution? My three week old is the same and just will not settle

I would always investigate silent reflux with babies that can't sleep on their back. It's not a case that all that can't sleep on their back have reflux but a significant proportion do.

At 8 weeks 40% of babies have reflux at 4 weeks it's even higher.

At this age our night routine was wake feed nappy feed. This took an hour. I held her for an hour then put her down. I slept for an hour and we started again. I was knackered and moved to cosleeping. I gained the hour of holding and she slept deeper. Once we stopped changing the nappy around 10 weeks there was minimal disruption to my sleep. I was breastfeeding