baby rolls to front when asleep, wakes up, can't roll back, wakes me!

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My 8 month old is a proficient day time roller. He can cruise around a room confidently. However, at night time he rolls from his back to his front and gets stuck. He is in a sleeping bag but has shown me he can roll completely when in it during the day. When he is stuck on his front he cries out to be 'rescued'. I go into his room, turn him back, tuck in the blanket and leave. He is often back on his front before I get out the door. I try and wait 5-10 minutes before returning to see if can settle himself. Last night this went on for three hours. He's only slept through 6 nights in his life so I'd like to try and sort it out!

Does anyone have any suggestions? Do I just need to wait until he's grows out of it or can I help him in some way?

Many thanks.

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Thanks for your reply.

How long do you think it will take for him to grow out of it? He's great at rolling during the day, can make his way around a table, pivotting on his tummy for corners so he doesn't seem to need practice!!

I'm not sure how best to deal with it so as to not make problems for the future. At the moment, if I hear him wake and I go straight into his room and give him his dummy, he settles back to sleep without really wakening. If I leave him for a few minutes then he's on his front - often with the dummy in his hand so he can replace it himself - but fully awake. I put him back on his back and walk away, but he's crying for me and turning back to his front by the time I'm at the door. I leave him 5 minutes before I settle him again. This goes on for hours - literally - until he's too tired to turn and goes back to sleep. PU/PD has never worked for him as he arches his back and fights it. (I think I read that I shouldn't do this if that's the case.)

By rushing to him, as I said, I can get him back to sleep, but am I being too much of a prop?
If I let him wake up, is that fair to him as he can't control the rolls at the moment and we both end up so tired?

He's also started teething and I don't know how much comfort to give him at night for that in case I set bad habits.

Sorry for all the questions!

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He cried from 11:30pm until 2:30 last night. I tried to extend my time between going in up to 15 minutes. I don't know whether this is right. I know the BW doesn't promote CIO but I can't do PU/PD and whenever I go in, sort him out and leave, the cries just escalate so it feels like I'm adding to his stress. I also wanted to give him time to see if he'd settle on his front. Is 15 mins too long? Will it stress him more?

I think the problem may be me during the day as he and I have got a 'good' routine for his sleeps which means a cuddle in my chair and then I put him down. He sleeps for 45-60 minutes and is very happy and calm. He's probably too close to sleep, or already asleep, when this happens. So today (it's 9:00am) I've put him down awake and he's screaming for me.

Sorry for all the questions again, I just need some support as I'm too tired for rational thinking!

thanks.

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Thanks for your reply. It's helpful to know what I should be doing. He is teething, just cut his first tooth this week, so may be I should comfort him more during the night until he is feeling better. I don't want to leave him but when he cries he won't let me touch him as he rolls away from me and pushes my hands and if I pick him up over the cot he arches his back as if to say 'put me down'. His cries escalate. If I take him to my chair for a cuddle then he's fine, he relaxes and goes back to sleep in my arms. Should I just do that until this round of teething passes?

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Yippee! Found something that works. Writing down what happens helped as I just thought that whilst he pushes me away in the cot he likes being held firmly if I were to pick him up and take him to the chair, so I've just gone into his room whilst he was crying and firmly held ones of hands through the cot bars. Five minutes later he was asleep! i'll try that during the night again. i know it's a prop of sort but at least I haven't picked him up and if it continues to work then I'll just use less pressure until I'm no longer holding it and just there beside him.

Thanks.

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Thanks for all your help!

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Okay, so tried hand-holding for three nights now. And yes, it has worked as there are no tears and he has gone back to sleep in his cot with me there. The next issue is, he is waking at least 4 times a night. I put him down at 7 and then he's awake roughly (not exact same times each night) 10, 1:30, 3, 5:30. It's worse than when he was little and I was feeding him 2 or 3 times a night! Last night it was taking up to 40 minutes for him to settle.

I'm going in when he starts shouting for me, putting him on his back, holding his hand, saying 'shhh', and as he calms, releasing his hand and starting to sit back from the cot. If I go out, he turns on to his front and we're back to where we were at the start of these messages.

So, should I stay in his room until he's fully asleep but try and get away from the cot as soon as I can? How long should I expect these NW to go on for (he's cutting 2nd tooth we think)? I'm putting him down awake during the day as well as I realised he was probably too asleep in my arms before.

Any advice gratefully received.

thanks

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Okay, so today I haven't held his hand, I've just sat in a chair in the room. For how long should I do this? Until he's asleep? or is that a prop too? If I leave the room earlier he rolls over, gets stuck and cries out again? If I am to leave the room before he goes to sleep, for how long should I let him cry?

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Thanks for all your help. I do appreciate it. He doesn't cry when I'm in the room normally. Fussed a lot this morning, for 1.5 hours at 4:30am with me there beside him. However, I've just put him down drowsy for his 9:00am nap and walked out without a murmur from him so progress is being made :-)