Moving around the cot...

Just after some advice...please!!

We had a really good, self-settling baby for day sleeps until about a month ago when he started rolling and preparing to crawl. Now no matter how exhausted he is when he goes to bed he won't go to sleep. Instead he rolls around the cot ending up with his head smooshed up against the bars and/or arms/legs through the bars which causes him to cry. He can't roll from his stomach to his back and sometimes he will fall asleep in that position.

What I wondered was if this is just a phase that he will eventually grow out of? Is there anything that people have done that worked that didn't involve using a movement restricting device such as a safe-t-sleep or safety pinning his sleeping bag to the bottom sheet?

I have considered getting an Airwrap...has this worked well for anyone?

Will being able to roll from his stomach to his back improve things??

So many questions!! Any feedback appreciated!

I found the airwrap stopped my boy from sticking his legs through the cot and I also found a sleeping bag stopped him from being able to crawl around much, and rolling over. My first slept on his tummy as soon as he could roll over, if they have good head control I find they are usually ok.

Thanks for the feedback ladies!

He's in a sleeping bag but is mighty mobile in it...surprises me actually!

I'm quite happy for him to be a tummy sleeper, he seems to prefer that or lying on his side, which is one of the reasons why I'm trying to avoid using a safe-t-sleep or something similar that prevents him from being able to get into a position he likes.
Might have to invest in the Airwrap, then knowing that he can't hurt himself I can leave him to settle himself into whatever position he ends up in??

It's really starting to do my head in! Getting him to sleep is becoming such a battle and I really don't want to start picking him up, rocking him or feeding him to sleep in fear that it will just make things worse in the long run.

I used a safety sleep with both of mine as soon as they went into the cot til after they could walk. They never even stood up in the cot til they went into a bed at 19mths!

DD does this only during her day sleeps and yup its become a mission to get her to sleep in the afternoon, as I'm often having to rescue her when she has hit her head against the cot or gotten stuck.

I've pretty much left her to go to sleep on her tummy, during the day she's only in her clothes, then when she's fully asleep I turn her back onto her back.

She doesn't do this at night.

We're not having much luck today either, daylight savings ending isn't helping either as our whole sleep/feed routine is out by 1 hour. Be glad when this week is over.

Good work, may have to give that a go with DD as she's still moving, accept at night when I put her into her sleepsack she doesn't.

I haven't used it during the day as its usually to hot and she sleeps in her clothes.

She did sleep for 14 hours last night - guess not sleeping during the day will do that.

Oooh when this happened with me, I was on holiday in the UK at my dads house and e could NOT settle on his tummy, a bit like you I got a sheet folded it to slot through the back of the sleeping bag, ie under his back running through the arms of the sleeping bag, then wrapped sheet round mattress, it just stopped him rolling over, cannot remember when we stopped needing to do this but it worked brilliantly and I guess we must have stopped needing to do it when he was more capable of moving about or something I really don't remember.

I felt safe as it was running under him he couldn't get caught up in it or anything.