rolling and sleeping-help!

pixiem38

My twins have just this week figured out how to roll to their bellies. One of them gets sooooo angry that she can't get back to her back and she has spent the last two nights (and most of yesterday) really grumpy about this. I can flip her back her back, but she just re-flips and then whines/complains about it. I think it will be better once she can figure out how to flip back on her own, but in the meantime, any suggestions (I swear every baby is soooo different. I never had this problem.with the other two....and even her sister isn't having this issue). They are almost 4 months adjusted age.

ally2011

Mine is still sleeping swaddled in a miracle blanket between two rice socks for this exact reason....I dread having to unswaddle!

baloneydisc

Unfortunately there's nothing you can do, they have to figure it out themselves.  I think it took DD about a week before she would just go back to sleep on her stomach.

rockyrollgirl

I have been going through this a month now. DD rolls onto her stomach and starts screaming with her face in the mattress. I have to flip her back over, she rolls on her tummy and starts screaming again. I try to give her a couple minutes to figure it out, but she just lays there screaming....sometimes getting her tired enough and then giving her a paci helps but it has been a struggle. She will also wake up in the middle of the night screaming because she had rolled again. *sigh*

I guess you have two options. 1) Wait it out and continue with tummy time during the day so she learns how to roll back over. or 2) Swaddle.

pixiem38

She has been napping like a champ all day (go figure....probably being up so much last night wore her out). She HATES pacifiers (it names her doubly angry whenever I try)...and swaddling is out for now b/c it is about a zilkion degrees all of a sudden and we do not have ac. Ugh. Maybe she'll just go with the belly sleeping tonight like she has been today instead of getting all worked up. Thanks for reading....I hope this is a short phase.

ericalee27

elainelbuck:

Unfortunately there's nothing you can do, they have to figure it out themselves.  I think it took DD about a week before she would just go back to sleep on her stomach.

Same here.  It was a looong week last week of DS2 keeping me up all night because of this issue.  But (knock on wood), I think he's finally settled on sleeping on his belly and stopped fussing over the weekend.  

 Good luck! I hope it passes for you soon.  DS1 never did this to me, so it was quite frustrating! 

JamieBart

We just went through this almost exactly but instead of wanting to roll back onto his back, my DS desperately wanted his arm out that he had rolled on top of.  He would scream and fuss until I helped him or rolled him to his back, only to do the same thing all over again...  Once he figured out how to lift himself enough to pull his arm out from under him he goes back to sleep on his belly.  Of course now I sit and watch the monitor all night to see that his back is rising and falling since he loves having his face buried in the mattress or anything he can get his little hands on.