Would this make me a terrible parent?

[Sleepdeprivationistorture]

So for brief background my very nearly 6momth old dd has been a terrible sleeper from day one. She’s ebf and will only settle on me.
I’m convinced she had silent reflux or terrible wind as a newborn as she would never settle on her back for more than half an hour, meaning that really early days I sat up pretty much all night holding her and so reluctantly we started to co-sleep with her either on her side or her front on my chest.

Now, I’m much more confident with co-sleeping and don’t actually mind it however I’m certain that dd is waking so much because of my movements and then she’s a nightmare to settle again. At the moment I’m lucky if she goes two hours, she’ll often wake in excess of 6 times a night. She has never taken a dummy and refused to be swaddled as a newborn.

I’ve been trying to settle her in her cot and yesterday we had a breakthrough - I put her in there asleep and she stayed asleep for nearly 6hours!! I’ll admit I didn’t sleep because I was expecting her to wake any moment though! I think the reason she stayed asleep so long was because she had rolled to her side. I worked out a few months ago that she’ll sleep amazing on her front and will even self settle but I felt I couldn’t risk putting her to sleep on her front.

Now however, I feel like I should rethink it. She’s very mobile for her age, she is able to roll from front to back and back to front and she is beginning to crawl . She doesn’t ever tend to roll in her sleep so if I put her on her back she’ll stay on her back but wake up very soon and cry, she gets more agitated the more she wakes and then just gets to the point where she won’t settle again.
I have an angelcare movement monitor and her cot is right next to my bed, we don’t have any other risk factors for sids and she sleeps in a sleeping bag. (She also has white noise on all night!)

So I guess I’m just wondering if it would be so terrible for me to put her to sleep on her front? I can deal with the crap sleep (although I can’t lie I would love a good few hours uninterrupted!) but I just feel that co-sleeping isn’t allowing her to sleep properly now!

Sorry that was so long, thanks for sticking with me if you’ve read this far!

If she's that mobile that she can roll herself then I don't really see a problem. As soon as both of mine could roll they opted to sleep on their fronts. It freaked me out at first but they were fine. I'm not saying it's risk free but it sounds like she will roll herself anyway before long.

If she can roll over herself and moves her head I would say she should be fine on her front! My DS has just turned 1 and has been a belly sleeper since he was about 5 months when he learned how to roll, he is also in a sleeping bag and has his white noise on all night

We have never had any issues with his front sleeping other than he will only nap in his cot as he won't nap properly unless he is on his belly!

Thank you both for your replies! That’s what I’m thinking, that she’s more than capable of rolling both ways because it’s all she does when she’s awake I don’t know why she doesn’t tend to do it when she’s asleep even though she’d much prefer to sleep on her front!
I just feel bad to be the one to put her on her front, but if she would do it herself I feel like there wouldn’t be an issue!

Soon as my little girl could roll over she was often on her tummy. Sometimes she cried in the night when she hadn't quite mastered the tummy to back and needed help rolling back to her back. Shes currently 18 months and will only sleep on her tummy. X

I had to put my refluxy non sleeper on their front at 6 weeks. We had a breathing monitor and agreement from GP and HV.

Yes, it’s safe enough as soon as they can roll over independently. Good luck!

Thanks everyone! So update I did put her on her front last night, she slept about 11-4 in her cot with one wake up (but I think I might have gone back to sleep if Id given her the chance!) and then back in the cot which she’s never done!
She did come into bed with me about 4 though and didn’t really settle again. But it’s definitely an improvement!