6 month old constantly waking due to rolling onto front

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ds wakes a lot and now has started waking and crying because he has rolled onto his front in his sleep.

I'm honestly not exagerating to say he wakes every hour but last 5 nights it has ben every 20 mins. Sometimes its 2 mins... I'm going out of my mind with tiredness - we are doing a massive house move next week (will try No Cry Sleep solution ideas once we are moved)

We co-sleep and even if I hold him in place he rolls over my arms.

Has anyone had this? Is there anything we can do? (not CC) When do they grow out of it?

My DS1 did this. I tucked in the excess on his sleeping bag to the bottom of the cot, stopped him rolling in the first place! Once he was able to do full 360 turns I let him be and he actually started sleeping on his front all the time. It didn't seem to upset him that he couldn't roll, think he was just doing it because he could, not because he wanted to.

They do it in their sleep. Their brains are practising an amazing new skill and they wake up confused and can't roll back at will. It'll be over soon enough, once he's cracked it.

You just have to let him do it. Don't attempt to stop him moving as it's important that they're able to if they need to (if they're ill for example).

I know it's frustrating but he's very clever!

I have started putting a sheet over her legs in her sleeping bag and tucking it in tightly so that she can't flip her legs to roll over. I think she also likes the feeling if security, like when she was swaddled as a tiny baby.

Just adding that if she really wants to flip over and she's awake, she still can. It just stops her doing it in her sleep when it's a weaker movement.