Last night after a very long drive in the pouring rain and windy wind (I'm very good with words, no?), we get home from a long day of eating and talking and put Andy down to sleep. He goes down pretty easily but never fully falls asleep. After an hour, he finally started to cry. We waited about five minutes, then Peter decided he was going to bounce him to sleep. He goes into the nursery, then walks right back out and tells me I have to see this. I was terrified about what "this" could be. I go in, and my son who has refused to roll since he did it once months ago has somehow turned himself 90 degrees and ended up on his belly. He looked like his head was digitally attached to his body, it's just that big. I was so proud of him, and I clapped and said "Yay!" a bunch to him to let him know.
I am dumb.
Now all Andy wants to do when he goes down for a nap is to roll over and scream at us to put him on his back again. So we'll do that, leave the room, and he's already screaming at us to come back. We finally decided to ignore him because we're good parents, and we think he ended up sleeping on his stomach. I was terrified that he'd be suffocated, but Peter told me he was fine. And he was. But omg it's been thrown in our faces for years that putting a baby on his stomach to sleep is deadly, and now my son is doing it. Who cares that my generation mostly slept on their stomachs (myself excluded because I was smart enough from birth to know that wasn't right until toddlerhood at the earliest)? My son can't do this! And he cannot scream himself to sleep because my life has been so perfect for the past few months while he'd go to sleep on his own without any interventioin or acknowledgement from me. Now comes more stress, more freak outs by me, and more stress on Peter because his nerotic wife has to call him and talk through this every time Andy naps even though Peter is trying to get some work done and enjoy the few moments of the day without me freaking out at him.
So that's my Thanksgiving. I hope you all had a good time and ate lots of food. I had chocolate pecan pie, so I was happy.
Charlotte's been sleeping on her stomach since she started rolling over at 3 1/2 - 4 months old. In the beginning, I would try to roll her onto her back, and she'd just roll back onto her belly. I just gave up and hoped she'd be fine because there was no stopping her, and she seems to love sleeping that way.
I am almost sure they say if a child can successful roll back and forth they are OK for stomach sleeping.
For what its worth I gave JT a pillow in his crib at 16 months...sure that was a no no!
Peter's right. Relax toots :) Andy will be fine... besides, if you keep going in to turn him over, he's going to get the idea that if he screams loud enough you will come get him - which is great if he's REALLY crying - you WANT to answer those cries - but not so much if he's just being a diva ;)