Flipping onto tummy sleep probs

yepyepsms

This is probably in the sleep thread but I am too lazy to catch up. LO has mastered flipping to her tummy and while awake can flip back fine. She has started flipping to her tummy when sleeping but wakes and cries and can't/doesn't roll back over. I go in and flip her back over and she gets back to sleep. We are doing this several times a night. I am tired. What are you guys doing? Let her figure it out and cry? Wait it out and just keep flipping back over? I understand why it's happening, just curious what others are doing?

kendy20

When DD started doing that I would try to soothe her back to sleep without moving her. So letting her sleep on her tummy after she had flipped over. It took about 1-2 weeks of doing this and now she will flip over and not even wake up. Or if she does, she doesn't cry and just goes back to sleep.

mrsbtobe20122

We had this issue also. I started putting him down on his belly. He didn't move all night, and cut out his 2am feed. He's been sleeping 8-8 for about 4 weeks now since I've made this change.

hbird0723

Our LO just started doing this as well. Sometimes she'll just go to sleep like that but other times it wakes her or she doesn't last long. She's only really good at rolling to her tummy when in her left side or her back if she rolls to her left so sometimes I will lay her on her right side and it helps a little. I'm hoping she figures it out soon!

usernewname

mrsbtobe20122 said:

We had this issue also. I started putting him down on his belly. He didn't move all night, and cut out his 2am feed. He's been sleeping 8-8 for about 4 weeks now since I've made this change.

Ooooh. That's a good idea, but I nurse on his bed to sleep - I guess i could roll him after he falls asleep ... hmmm.

mrsbtobe20122

usernewname said:

mrsbtobe20122 said:

We had this issue also. I started putting him down on his belly. He didn't move all night, and cut out his 2am feed. He's been sleeping 8-8 for about 4 weeks now since I've made this change.

Ooooh. That's a good idea, but I nurse on his bed to sleep - I guess i could roll him after he falls asleep ... hmmm.


I give a BM bottle, rock to sleep/drowsy-- then put him down with his head to the side--- works like a charm.

usernewname

I still nurse to sleep. A habit I plan on breaking once we get back on a regular schedule. Stupid time change.

hbird0723

I nurse to sleep as well and this rolling stuff is waking her like every couple hours again and I'm having to nurse. I know she doesn't need that many nursing sessions.

deanna1313

Same problem here! Great ideas though. Hope they work for us.

caballo718

DS started doing this but flipping belly to back. I kept going in to flip him but now he has to figure it out on his own. Some nights are better than others.

usernewname

I still nurse to sleep. A habit I plan on breaking once we get back on a regular schedule. Stupid time change.

Hbird05 said:

I nurse to sleep as well and this rolling stuff is waking her like every couple hours again and I'm having to nurse. I know she doesn't need that many nursing sessions.

Same

hbird0723

Well last night was night 4 since she started rolling to her tummy and it seems that she prefers it now. She slept 6 hours like that. I think once she figures it out even more she will hopefully sleep even longer.

Helmink0804

We had this problem- it lasted less than a week. I slept on the couch with her twice so we both could sleep!

We put her down on her side and that seemed to work with her paci. She only woke when her paci came out we just put it back in and she slept through the night.

Good luck- hope you get some sleep soon!