how can i stop ds getting stuck on his side/front and waking up at 5am???

[issywoo]

my ds has been rolling on his front for approx 5 weeeks now (he's 22 weeks now) but still can't roll himself back so he wakes up at 5am irate so i roll him back and leave my hand firmly on him until his breathing returns to a normal pace and then he'll sleep for between 1 and 2 hours. he's in a sleeping bag so is that making the problem worse? i would love to find a way to stop him rolling in the night completely - is there anything i can buy that will do this? i find it hard to leave him to cry as i have a 3 yr old in the room next door and peeved neighbours upstairs. once he starts crying i find it best to nip it in the bub otherwise we reach the point of no return. i am guessing that he is in a light sleep at 4.30/5am and thats why he starts to roll as he doesn't do this earlier in the night?

issywoo, I started a thread similar to this mid-July called "Help, DS still rolling around." Have a look, I kept updating so that you could see the progress we were making regarding DS moving around at night.
I've found that letting DS be free in his cot (grobag on, though) he has become much better at moving and really will get himself out of sticky situations.
I think you will have to do what we did and bite the bullet. Perhaps you could warn your neighbours and talk to your 3yr old about what you're going to do.
Anyway, hope you find the thread useful.
Take care

what does ds mean ??

We had this sort of problem with dd - but she used to pull herself up to standing in her grobag and then let go and bang her head on the cot bars on the way down. We got hold of a thing from NZ - which I think you can now buy here. It's like a very wide velcro fastening belt attached to a sheet. It sounds mean to anchor them down but we had to do it as I was scared she was going to hurt herself. I can't remember what the belt is called but some of the kiwis on mn might be able to help. (I should add that she was just in it for a little while until she got more adept physically)

ds means darling son i believe

I remember when that dd used to get herself stuck - in the summer when it was so hot she used to just sleep in a vest, she used to roll to her front, get her arm stuck and yell for help. But it was a shortish phase. The funniest time was hearing her squeak for assistance, and going in to see both legs stuck thorugh the bars at the bottom of the cot, and her arm stuck out though the side...

I used to go in promptly as soon as I heard her, but otherwise didn't worry too much about it. We were lucky that she would settle very quickly afterwards though.