Put baby to sleep on tummy.... who dares?!

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My dd (5mo) turns on to her tummy every night, which is fine - apart from she invariably ends up sleeping horizontally across the cot and bumps her head on the bars. And yet, I can't quite bring myself to put her down on her tummy...

all mine from day one

Tom has slept on his tummy ever since he went into a cot at 3 months.

Eldest son (now 25) always slept on his tum...it was ENCOURAGED then.
Littlest one (8 months) flips over and prefers sleeping on his tummy.

My dd2 was put on her back then always rolled over, Just dont put a pillow in there cause they cant lift their head clear of it

I can't bring myself to put my DD on her front either. She's 7mo and always turns onto her tummy during the night, she's been doing it for 3 months now and the silly girl still hasn't learnt to roll back yet!

I still put her on her back, even though I know she'll roll over, but I put her right at the side of the cot now so she has plenty of space to roll into.

If I go up to bed early enough I turn her onto her back again (she stays that way for all of 5 minutes) but if I get distracted by MN and got to bed late (most nights) then she stays on her front becuase I'm scared of waking her.

Almost every night she'll wake at some point p crying that she can't roll herself back and has got stuck in an awkward position.

Oh how I wish she'd learn to roll over!

Mine started on their backs but ended up on their sides most night. I always worried too much to put them on their fronts even though I knew they'd sleep better.

Once ds started rolling onto his tummy at night I just put him down to sleep on his front, he was obviously far more comfortable that way and I figured once they can roll the cot death thing really isn't a significant issue.

I still don't and my DD is 9 months. She often plays in her cot before she drifts off to sleep and crawls around in the cot, so will often fall asleep on her front. I know they say not to discourage them from finding their own comfy sleeping positions, from about 5 or 6 months, but I just can't sleep knowing that she is asleep on her front. I don't even know when a child is not at risk of cot death anymore. My friend says she isn't at risk, at 9 months, but I'm not sure.

Izzybel, I think the risk goes on to over a year, but decreases as the child gets older.

Thanks, I thought so. Didn't know whether I was being too over protective or not.

once they can roll from front to back you don't need to keep moving them.

My first would just not countenance sleeping any other way.

The worst thing that happened was losing him under the duvet once, he got very hot

My new one doesn't like being on his front, for some reason.