https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 17 May 2026 13:09:55 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babies-rolling-onto-tummy-in-sleep-gt-cryingscreaming#post-283183 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:15:22 +0000 junebuglim 283183@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BabyBoecksMom: @Honeybee: Thank you both! What a relief to know that both of yours learned to adjust on their own and in about a weeks time. I hope the same applies to my munchkins! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babies-rolling-onto-tummy-in-sleep-gt-cryingscreaming#post-282903 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:03:16 +0000 Honeybee 282903@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS started doing this when we swaddle weaned him. What I ended up doing was tucking crocheted blanket over top of him and in between the crib and mattress. That seemed to help some, but we did have to just wait it out until he learned to sleep on his belly. Like @BabyBoecksMom: it took about a week before he figured it out. In the meantime, I'd rock him back to sleep every time he woke up. I'll say that once he mastered sleeping on his belly, he started putting himself to sleep, without any assistance from us! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babies-rolling-onto-tummy-in-sleep-gt-cryingscreaming#post-282849 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:31:42 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 282849@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh I remember that.... I used to ask DD why she didn't roll back on her back even though she KNEW how to do it?? It took about a week but she eventually just figured all of it out on her own (sleeping on tummy w/ head to the side and rolling back on her back again). Until she figured it out, we would go in there and put her back on her back. She would fall back asleep almost immediately. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babies-rolling-onto-tummy-in-sleep-gt-cryingscreaming#post-282807 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:05:55 +0000 junebuglim 282807@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hello! Any advice/suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated! </p> <p>My twins are now 5 months old (4 months adjusted) and both learned the joy of rolling from back to belly. While exciting, it has put their napping and sleeping down the hole! We had just finally settled into feeling that their napping and overnight sleeping were in a good place and now this... :(<br /> When they are put down in their crib they want to flip and then they get mad because they seem to have forgotten how to roll back onto their backs and they don't turn their heads while lying flat on their belly - they either face plant or are in push up position (unhappy in both!) </p> <p>Did you have to teach your little ones to sleep on their tummies (turning faces side to side) if they turn onto their tummies while sleeping? Or did they eventually figure it out themselves? Right now we have had to resort to either swaddling them up again or rocking them back to sleep - which we haven't done in a while! We know that sleep training is coming up soon as we have no desire to go back to rocking them to sleep, but do we wait until they are more comfortable being on their bellies or remember how to turn back onto their backs? I'm a little weary of leaving them to cry if they're just face planted nose down on the crib unsure of what to do.</p> <p>We are also simultaneously trying to swaddle/miracle blanket wean since we don't want it to pose a danger to them... this has been a challenge as well. Lots going on in this casa de geminis! </p>