6 month old baby wont sleep on back!

emlou2009

if you want to quote a post, its much easier for you if you go to the bottom right hand corner and click on quote

i didnt ask you to apologise? the advice you posted is good advice, as i said, but in a situation where a baby has decided sleeping in a particular position is comfy, that advice isnt relevant at all. the OP is posting about a 6 month old baby. when my son reached 5 months old, it wouldnt have mattered where i put him in the cot cos he would still end up with his head at the foot and face down!

its a very worrying time for a mum when a baby suddenly decides to start moving around in his sleep to get comfy, and once they get to that stage the advice you posted is just not relevant any more.

msb5262

"I know all that, but at what age?
I find it a bit silly that you would in effect have to keep getting up to put a 6 month old baby on their back when they are obviously keen on sleeping on their tummies." - quoted from astonsmummy, post #19.
In my post #4 I stated that my first child had insisted on sleeping on his front, and that the health visitor said it was fine.
Statistics suggest that 90% of cot deaths occur in babies aged 6 months or less, but the definition of cot death is a sudden unexplained death in a child aged 12 months or less - therefore 10% of cot deaths involve babies aged 6 months to one year.
"I dint actually ask for that information, I aksed if there was a problem with a 6 month old baby sleeping on their tummy, when they have rolled over which was in effect what the OP was."
astonsmummy, post #20.
In answer to your question, yes. There is potentially a problem with six month old babies sleeping on their tummies which is why most mums with this problem discuss it with their health visitor.

honeypop

OP my baby has slept on his front since he could roll over (about 10 weeks old), and my HV said as long as he can lift his head and also roll back then there is no problem. You can spend ages re-positioning babies on their backs but they could very well turn over again as soon as you are out the door, so eventually it's pointless.

Regarding the clutching the mattress for comfort, since mine had a little 'blankie' to hold when I put him in the cot, he turns over a lot less now he has something in his hands to hold. Maybe try this?

I'm sure all mums know the SIDS advice about laying them on their backs, but sometimes it's just not practical when babies can roll themselves. What should we do...pin them down?

astonsmummy

Hmm I'm not most mums then because I never discussed it with my HV, I just used my inituition and realised that it was not worth keep disturbing my sleeping baby when he rolled over and slept on his tummy

Spendless

Hi- I had this with my eldest from about 5 months-ish. After a sleepless night where I put baby on his back only for him to turn onto tummy, I spoke to my HV. She said pretty much what oothers have done on here, if baby is old enough to turn then it's fine, just continue to put baby to sleep on back when putting to bed. This was 9 years ago and advice changes all the time and I'd hate to be telling you out-of-date stuff so double check with your HV.

candygirl

astonsmummy wrote: »

I dint actually ask for that information, I aksed if there was a problem with a 6 month old baby sleeping on their tummy, when they have rolled over which was in effect what the OP was.

My 7 month old dgd always rolls over to sleep on her tum, even though I put her on her back to go to sleep as per the new rules:rolleyes:She also sleeps better with a light quilt as blankets aren't enough to keep her settled.I understand the rules about preventing SIDS, esp with tiny babies, but she is always turning over herself and can even sit up in her cot now;):DI think babies who can turn over themselves are ok on their tums:D

emlou2009

actually it is a well known that there is more of a risk of cot death if the child is exposed to secondary cigarette smoke than sleeping on their fronts

honeypop, you are clearly right - perhaps we should invent a restraining device to stop our children getting comfy either that or never sleep ourselves cos we are either always watching them or waking them by turning them over!

on a practical note, you can buy baby alarms which go off if babys breathing stops or becomes irregular, this could be useful if a mother is worried about this.

candygirl

msb5262 wrote: »

I think every parent on this thread and in the UK has heard of cot death and knows that advice from health visitors etc is based on research.

MsB

I thought so too until my Daughters HV "advised" her to give my DGD adult cereal as the baby ones are full of sugar!!!!!I was horrified as adult ones are full of sugar and salt, and a baby died after being given Ready Brek a few years ago:eek::eek:

tandraig

oh - dear - another case of current medical wisdom causing panic among mums!!!
I am mum to three (now grown up) and six grandkids. I was among the first of the mums to be given advice that babies should NEVER be put on their backs to sleep (the thinking was that if they were sick they would choke on vomit). my mum was horrified!!!! but i stuck to it and thankfully mine were all fine!!! my oldest liked to sleep on her tummy with butt in the air, the other two - i would find them on their backs anyway!
please new mums - ask mum or grandma - the old way of putting babies on backs has proved to be the BEST way so perhaps the old wives werent so wrong?
for the poster about baby cereals? have always given mine adult cereals anyway as the price of the baby ones was extortionate! also - have only ever bought baby food in jars as stand-by measures. the babies had what we had only mushed up! still provide my grandkids with my frozen versions of baby meals. I dont use much salt in cooking and little sugar and Im convinced that MY meals are heathier than factory produced processed meals. so are my daughters in law who ask for meals when their freezer meals are running low.

Spendless

It was someone from my home town whose baby died after giving them ready-brek. Remember though in those days weaning you were told to do from 3 months, which MAY have contributed to it also. It would be around 10 years ago as I'd lost our first but wasn't pregnant with my eldest now 9.5.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/404667.stm


ETA - found a link and it wasn't just ready brek they were feeding baby.