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For me, if they can lift up their heads to move from side to side (go from laying on one cheek to the other) then they are ready. Also if you're closely monitoring them anyway there's less of a suffocation risk.

I would say yes.

It us a personal choice but I started letting lot nap on her belly at 2.5 months.

DS only rolls onto his sides from his back at the moment, but he fell asleep when I put him down for tummy time last week...whimpered a few minutes and then was out like a light for like THREE HOURS! It was glorious! (Like A, E will usually only sleeps in my arms). My house was clean and laundry was done--I didn't know what to do with myself!

That said, I was super paranoid about it and sat like 5 feet away from him, even though he could (and did, when he woke up) lift his upper body up and roll onto his side, etc.

ETA: Btw, I love that picture of him! He looks like such a little boy!

Once LO was able to go from back-to-belly and belly-to-back we let him nap on his tummy. We wanted him to be able to 'go both ways' first. After a few weeks he started moving to his tummy himself regardless of how we put him down.

ha, that's my favorite sleeping position

That was our epiphany just shy of 6 months, once we started putting him to bed that way, he started STTN! He was a little later in rolling over, so I'm glad we waited, but it was an awesome discovery.

I was always told that if they rolled themselves onto their tummies then it's ok. We just aren't supposed to place them down that way. My LO started rolling in her sleep at an early age, too.