Help please!! 5mo co-sleeping baby is rolling on to stomach, face-down while asleep

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Udderly · 16/04/2011 22:44

I am terrified. DD sleeps in with me. 2 nights ago she shuffled enough to wake me up. I hit the light to see her roll over on to her tummy and bury her face in the mattress. I turned her over, hoped it was a one off. She goes to bed around 7. I do check on her and have a monitor, but I just came up to bed and found her fast asleep face down burried in the mattress.

What can I do? I'm terrified something will happen her. Should I try to put her in a cot that at least has the holes in the mattress? I'm shaking here even thinking about it!!

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Udderly · 16/04/2011 22:58

Bump

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Flisspaps · 16/04/2011 23:00

Can she roll from front to back?

RitaMorgan · 16/04/2011 23:01

Can you just turn her head to the side?

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Udderly · 16/04/2011 23:10

She started rolling front to back about a month ago but as soon as she discovered back to front, didn't do it anymore. I started rolling her front to back on the mat yesterday to try to teach her and she did it spontaneously today a few times. But even so, its not that she is stuck as such, just flat out.

I am afraid of her doing it while I'm either asleep or not in the room when I wouldn't be there to turn her head.

Thanks for the responses. I feel I'll have a sleepness night.

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RitaMorgan · 16/04/2011 23:12

Is your mattress quite firm? I think a rolling 5 month old is safe to find their own position.

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Udderly · 16/04/2011 23:16

Its memory foam, which I don't think is a great idea for co-sleeping, but wasn't a problem in the past as she barely moved at all during the night.

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RitaMorgan · 17/04/2011 06:25

No, memory foam sounds a bit worrying - I wouldn't be happy about that either. How about moving her into a bedside cot?

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Udderly · 17/04/2011 09:35

Yeah, I have one ready to go in the nursery that I can bring in. . I think we might have reached the end of the road on the co-sleeping, MIL will be overjoyed! Thanks for your help Rita.

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narmada · 18/04/2011 13:56

I think generally it's fine, but I wouldn't use a memory-foam mattress with a face-down sleeping baby either - she'd be safer in a bedside cot as rita says. My DD used to sleep nose pressed into mattress from the minute she could roll over - which I think was around 6 months.

narmada · 18/04/2011 13:57

PS don't tell the MIL. It will only make her feel uneccesarily self-righteous!

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