Advice for a 4mo old's mom? Please!

ZiaVballQT · June 2012

So my 4 mo old son has mastered the art of rolling on to his tummy in his crib. The problem is he can't roll back to his back and starts freaking out shortly after. He can hold his head up just fine and I'm not even worried about him sleeping on his tummy but he doesn't seem to like it. Yet he keeps rolling over in bed. Yesterday for nap time I went in 4 times to roll him back over, and I finally gave in and put him in the swing then waited till he was asleep and moved him to the crib. However, I don't want to get in this habit, because he has always been really good at self-soothing. We usually put him down drowsy but awake and he falls asleep on his own. So my ? is, Do I just leave him and let him figure it out? Do I keep rolling him back over? At 6 weeks old he started rolling front to back, but he hasn't done that in awhile, it's like he forgot or something. Any tips? No we don't swaddle him anymore.

brewcitybride · June 2012

This is very typical at 4 months, both my kids went through this. I let them just figure it out on their own, and after a few days both loved sleeping on their tummies and still do (DD is 3, DS is 7 months).

jvg6909 · June 2012

This happened to us around 5 months and lasted probably about a week and a half. I honestly thought it would never end but now she sleeps on her belly. She still wakes up a lot for her pacifier and she still refuses to roll back on to her back but that's a whole other story. She does usually go right back to sleep though on her bell after she gets her paci back, I never flip her back over anymore.

errica720 · June 2012

Same here...my guy always hated tummy time so when he started flipping over in the crib I was like GREAT! UGH! I started going in and flipping him over. But, once I stopped doing that, he ended up sleeping just fine on his tummy. Now he can roll back to his back, but still sleeps on his belly. So I guess my tip is just stop rolling him back over

He'll get used to it

Ms5586 · June 2012

Oh yeah, I remember that. I had some small crib wedges he laid in between, and that prevented him from rolling over. I can't find them though, so I don't know if they still make them. You could try to lay the boppy down, with his legs up and the "arms" of the boppy around him. It might prevent him from rolling. Or, you could roll up 2 blankets, or buy a pool noodle and cut it in half, and put those under the crib sheet.

ras26 · June 2012

Ms5586:
Oh yeah, I remember that. I had some small crib wedges he laid in between, and that prevented him from rolling over. I can't find them though, so I don't know if they still make them. You could try to lay the boppy down, with his legs up and the "arms" of the boppy around him. It might prevent him from rolling. Or, you could roll up 2 blankets, or buy a pool noodle and cut it in half, and put those under the crib sheet.

Please don't use an infant sleep positioner. It's a really bad idea: https://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml10/10358.html

LO recently went through this and after a day or two she stopped getting upset and now sleeps on her tummy all the time!

BettyBookworm · June 2012

Ride it out. Just keep flipping him back over.

Either he will figure out how to roll tummy to back or get used to sleeping on his tummy.

DD started doing this around that age. Now its getting up on all-fours to "sleep-crawl". There is always something, it seems.

DawnJM25 · June 2012

We went through the exact same thing. I can't remember how long the phase lasted- maybe 2-ish weeks? I'd have to go in and flip her over when she got stuck on her tummy. Eventually DD got to the point where she didn't mind sleeping on her tummy. It's a totally normal phase- annoying for mom, I know, but normal.

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