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XP: what do I do now?!?

Christabel2010Christabel2010 member
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I'm a lurker on this board but since my DD is almost 6 months I thought maybe someone could help:


Our LO is 5.5 months old and we have had tremendous success with the Ferber method starting at 4 months. She STTN almost every night with a couple wake ups when she is hungry.
The past 48 hours she has learned to roll from back to belly and tonight she won't go to sleep. She is exhausted and keeps rolling on her belly then waking up very upset.
Do I go in and flip her? I have done twice and she has fallen asleep and flipped back to her belly making herself wake back up
Or do I let her figure it out ?
TIA!
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Re: XP: what do I do now?!?

  • kjsmith9kjsmith9 member
    We flipped her back if she was really crying, but just put the paci back in and patted her back if she was fussing and still willing to lay her head on the mattress.  We had a ROUGH few nights with exactly this problem, but then she just figured it out.  Now every morning when we go in to wake her up for daycare, she's sound asleep on her belly :)  Hang in there!
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  • pb_bridepb_bride member

    Like PP said, you'll have to let her figure it out.  This translates to a couple of bad nights, but eventually she'll learn to sleep on her belly.

    My son rolled back->belly at 4 months. The first night he did this he cried and cried. We tried turning him back on his back, but 3 seconds later he was on his belly again.  We went back and forth for an hour trying to flip him on his back, but he just kept rolling.  We eventually gave up and let him cry to sleep.

    It took several nights before he was comfortable.  Naps were bad too.

    In any case, ever since then, DS has slept on his belly 95% of the time. We put him down on his back, but he pretty much rolls onto his belly right away to go to sleep. 

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    We had a tough week when DS learned to roll. I stuck to the Ferber check ins and would roll him back over when I went in to check on him. In the middle of the night when he woke up I would give him a few minutes before going in to flip him. It took about a week and now sleeps happily on his stomach.
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