Tummy sleeping help

DD is 6 months next week and over the last couple of weeks she keeps flipping over to her tummy when she sleeps (probably for 75% of her sleeps). I often wake a ckeck on her in the night and when she is on her tummy I often flip her over with no problems. During the day I dont bother flipping her as I can check on her regularly. I feel safe as he face in to the side and she is a big stong girl.
Hovever, I have just been in to check on her and her face is down (I had a small heart attack). I can hear and see her breathing fine but it worries me that in a deep sleep she would suffocate.
Do You think I need to worry? or at this age, regardless of her position should she be able to move her self or wake herself if stuggling?

I try to tuck her in tightly, obviously I only get it right 25% of the time. I am aware of safety sleeps, but I am not keep on strapping her down, I really dont think that will go down well with her.

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My girl has been a tummy sleeper from a few mths old. She would cry & cry, & as soon as I flipped her to her tummy she'd drop off to sleep. I too would sometimes come in & find her face down, but never had a problem. It just seemed to be what she felt like. Even now, when she has finally learnt to sleep on her back, she only does so very rarely (I put her in her cot awake & she lies down how she likes now).

She too was (is) a strong wee thing. I'm not saying that it will def be okay, but if you are okay with it but worry that 'its not the done thing' (like I was), then know that there are other babies that sleep on their tummy. I suppose they, just like us, have their preferences for sleeping!

Kate, I know that she has the same sleeping bag as Jack and he has started to thoroughly explore his cot just lately. It was suggested to me the other day that the long part of the sleeping bag get tucked in tight at the end of the cot, so maybe try that? Tuck it in and then tuck her in with her blanket as well. I'm not trying it as he tends at the moment to only move around as he's waking or already woken, so calls out to me when he gets stuck in a corner and I don't mind him waking me, but if I thought he was sleeping face down I'd definitely give it a go.

I have slept Mac on his tummy for the last 3 weeks (he's only 6 weeks old) or so with no problems. We chose to do this because on his back we had to wrap him (which he hated) and then would try to esape his wrap and end up shuffling himself aorund the bed and then under his blankets. On his tummy his startle reflex doesn't bother him, so no need to wrap him and I also feel that tummy sleeping is far more natural than sleeping on your back.
I have often found him face down and like you, the first time I paniced and started touching and prodding him to make sure he was still alive...much to his disgust. Now if I find him like that I just carefully turn his head just slightly (not so it's totally off to one side, but so it's just tilted so air can get past) and we have no problems.

I am quite confident in saying he would move his own head if he were having trouble breathing, but my own conscience won't allow me to leave him face down.

 

In your situation I would say your DD is quite safe on her tummy and she is probably aware enough to move her own head if she is having difficulty breathing. If she is putting herself on her tummy it's probably because she'smore comfortable there and therefore having a more restful sleep which is far better for her.

A sound and montion montior will alert you with an alarm if she stops breathing, I think that is what they were suggesting

I have let DD sleep on her tummy for the longest time much to plunkets horror. I have an angel care monitor which is the motion detector and love it. Sometimes though I admit I forget to turn it back on in the middle of the night if I have pulled her out of bed for some reason but she's always been fine.

I too have walked in to find DD face down which didn't bother us the first couple of times as her arms were by her head, but then one day we saw her lying facedown with her arms down by her side like she was passed out or something, that's when we decided we needed the angel care monitor. As soon as we put her down on her tummy to sleep she went 7hrs consistently. Now at 6mths she moves so damn much its not funny when she's trying to settle to sleep. She rolls on to her back and screams as she hates being on her back lol