Now I know that once they are able to roll themselves over it shouldn't be a problem.... however... it's still driving me crazy! Now I wake up more just to go and check on her! I feel so paranoid about SIDS - which is ridiculous because of so many factors - she's healthy, breastfed, put to sleep on her back, not exposed to smoke, no objects or bumper pads in her crib, passed the peak age for it - the list goes on. On top of that B and I are really healthy people (with the exception of his diabetes which is not conclusively genetic) and so our kids seem to be too. If I try to encourage her to sleep on her back she wakes up way more than usual. Every 2 hours actually.
I never went through this with Kaeda because of two things: she co-slept in our bed and she hated being on her tummy at any time. It makes me feel like a first time parent because in a way I am - a first time parent doing it the "normal" way with my little one in her own room.
Not to go off on a tangent (but I totally am) I stumbled upon this blog (Peaceful Parenting) that has a lot of really interesting articles. It's a little strongly opinionated at points but the overall is pretty much in line with my parenting beliefs. It's actually making me feel a little guilty about not co-sleeping much with Bowynn. I have to remind myself that she sleeps better when we're not in the same room.
But back to the problem at hand, I guess one good thing about it is that sleeping on her tummy makes it hard for her to use her soother - so maybe she'll self ween?
I suppose the better she gets at sleeping like that the more comfortable I'll be.
Faith was a tummy sleeper from birth. I was so scared to but I kept telling myself that it used to be fine to sleep on your tummy then it wasn't, then it was, then it wasn't. I really try not to read to much about stuff because I find that things have change so much in just the 3 years between my two kids so it is hard to know what is write and wrong. Hope this helps ease your worry.
ReplyDeleteI keep telling myself that! Even when Bo was a baby she would sometimes fall asleep on her tummy and I would just roll her over after. Logic isn't working super great, but I find that with each night it gets easier for both of us - she gets used to sleeping on her tummy and rolling around and I have another tummy-night with no issues.
ReplyDeleteIt does help to stay away from SIDS info and stuff like that though... that definitely makes worrying worse.