Nap time trouble

[TobiasClassic5]

My son has just learned to roll onto his tummy but can't roll back yet. He does this new trick all the time. I used to get him to take a nap pretty well but now he keep rolling over and gets mad and screams until I go roll him to his back. But by this time he's not sleepy anymore. Any ideas?

[kidswriter71]

My guess is that you won't have to deal with this for more than a week or so. Kids grow and learn fast.

You might want to give him a gentle "nudge" to help him roll himself back over (instead of rolling him all the way over yourself). It won't take him long to catch on and do it all by himself.

My wife's suggestion: Lay him on his side with two towels rolled up on either side of him so he can't roll around when he's supposed to be napping.

[Indy]

Another option is to swaddle him.

[Jackson's Dad]

How old is he? Old enough to leave on his stomach? If so, you could just leave him like that -- the crying will stop eventually.

We had Jackson swaddled until 5 months (with one of those anti-rollover pillows). At 5 months, we removed bot, and "ferberized" him.

[Awwc]

clothes pins? Onesies to the mattress? :wink:

[Indy]

clothes pins? Onesies to the mattress? :wink:

You know, you could sew a onesie to the bottom sheet. :shock: Million's Jerry, millions!

[Jackson's Dad]

Louis, a "cushion vice"? Sounds like a Monty Python torture (as in, the "comfy chair").

[Weston]

:shock: :lol: :lol:

[TobiasClassic5]

he is four months. Is that too early to leave on his tummy? Swaddling won't work. He's a little Houdini. He wasn't four days old befor he figured out how to get out of it. Somehow the little guy always finds a way to get his arm out. And we even had the nurse try it on her home visit a week after he was born and she couldn't keep him in. We have a sleep positioner but he hates that worse than being on his tummy. He did manage to roll himself back today but I think it was more of an accident than something he planned.

[SmokinZBT]

Zoe refused to sleep on her stomach anymore when she was a couple of months old. I can't remember, but I think it was around three months. Also would kick herself out of the swaddling at the same time. She's fine.

We actually ended up with the opposite problem, she learned how to roll onto her back, and would scream because she couldn't sleep that way. She ended up not rolling for a while, she didn't like ending up on her back, so she just didn't do it at all.

Then she learned how to stand in the crib. Couldn't get back down. So she'd wake up in the middle of the night, pull herself up, and then start screaming to get back down. I had to teach her how to get down, but she figured it out in a little over a week.

[Thundercranium]

I just went through the same thing. Alexander, who used to only wake up once a night, has been up every two hours for the last ten days :( . Seems since he learned to roll over he has little interest in sleeping on his back anymore! Unfortunately, he gets into an uncomfortable position, and can't seem to get out of it.

Time will solve your problem. Alexander seems to have figured out a few more moves and is back to his old sleeping pattern...thank God!

[Jackson's Dad]

Then she learned how to stand in the crib. Couldn't get back down....

Jackson just started this as well (he's 8 months). This monday he just began to crawl, and very quickly started pulling himself up. Wednesday night, he woke up in the middle of the night and pulled himself up in the crib. Kinda frustrating, because as soon as you put him down, he pulled himself up again. We just let him do that, and still walked out of the room. We'd come back in 15 minutes, put him down, he'd pull himself out as we walked out. After a few times, I think he got the idea that if he'd stand he'd have to wait standing, and he fell asleep. The last two nights he still has woken up in the early morning (an hour early for him), but he hasn't pulled himself up again. Interesting. We also just knocked the crib down a notch, so hopefully this makes it a little harder to get up -- at least until he learns to sit down on his own.

Smokin, we have been trying to teach him to sit, but his knees just don't bend! I have to tickle him to get him to fold. :wink: Any advice?

[Weston]

Alex just started doing the same thing in his crib. He stands up and then doesn't know how to get back down, so he starts yelling. Eventually if we don't help him down, he will akwardly fall to a sitting position :lol:

[Jackson's Dad]

I'm considering Vaseline on the crib's rail....

[SmokinZBT]

none that I can think of. Zoe always liked being pulled up into a sitting position, from the time she was about a month old or so. Once she got used to being pulled into a sitting position, she like d being pulled up to standing. She has been standing, using our hands just for balance since she was 3-4 months old.

To get her down in the crib, I used to grab her hands from the rails and hold them over her head. I would then lower my hands toward the crib, and she would generally follow. However this had been practiced for several months before we had to do it in the crib. On the bright side, the doctor told us that phase usually only lasts a week or two, and either they stop standing, or figure out how to sit back down. It was true, she only did it for about a week.