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It took a week or so of me obsessively watching him over the monitor when he first starting sleeping on his tummy before I got even remotely comfortable with it, but he did sleep a LOT better that way (usually with his butt way up in the air ) Now he cycles through all kinds of positions!

Ahh, sleep got better for us once my LO started sleeping on her tummy as well. I never dared to flip her...I definitely slept lighter for a while though

@avivoca: Gotta do what makes you comfortable... but I will say, my pediatrician said once LO was strong enough to flip over on his stomach (and MUCH preferred sleeping that way) it was okay to leave him like that. No flipping necessary, no worries!

Babies do seem to sleep a lot better/more soundly on their tummies.

DS has been doing this for a couple months, and yep, sleeps much better that way

@avivoca: I flipped m2 once and we were up the rest of the night! She sleeps so much better on her tummy. I start her on her back and if she is really tired, she stays that way. Otherwise, she rolls all night long, all over her crib.

My LO was a horrific sleeper. When she flipped to her stomach at 7.5 months was when she finally started STTN. She could roll over at that point so I wasn't *too* worried. But still worried at the beginning as well.

Something I found interesting is my Pediatrician said one of the ideas behind back to sleep is that babies don't sleep as soundly on their backs so they will wake themselves more easily to breathe (if they were to stop breathing). So there is something to them sleeping better on their stomach! I would be nervous too but don't think I would turn her! And that's a sensitive monitor if you can hear her breathe on it! Wow! (Although we have white noise so we couldn't hear his breathing over that anyway, I'm sure)

LO sleeps so much better on her stomach!

My DD started flipping onto her stomach at about 5 months and - OMG - she slept *so* much better. Of course, I was a nervous wreck about it and flipped her before going to bed for a couple of weeks. But my ped said something really interesting - basically she said that the SIDS research shows that the risk is higher for babies that are *put down* on their stomachs, not babies that flip themselves and sleep on their bellies. She said that she had never read about a case of SIDS where the baby was put down on their backs, so as long as I always put DD down on her back, I should not worry about it. My understanding is that once a baby is strong enough to flip themselves, they have the capacity to sleep that way without harm.

It's funny thinking back on this stage... DD is now almost 16 mo and is exclusively a stomach sleeper. I can so clearly remember being stressed about it when she first started sleeping on her stomach, but now it's just the way things are.