RAWHIDE!
Ahem. That is to say, my 4.5 month old has become hell bent on rolling over and does all her practicing at night, in her crib. She still hasn't managed to get all the way over in either direction, but in the meantime has decided that sleeping on her side is awesome. Only problem is, it takes her about twenty minutes to hike herself over far enough that she stays. In the process she manages to turn herself around at least 90 degrees in her crib, so when she invariably flips to her back again while she's asleep she bonks into the bars and wakes up.
So we've gone from one night wakeup after a 9-10 hour stretch, to about three wake-ups with a max of four hours in between. It suuucks. She was already sleeping shorter spurts because of the four month sleep regression, but the rolling seems to be much worse.
I've considered propping her up with a rolled up towel, or at least flipping her onto her back once she's deeply asleep, but I suspect that the sooner she works this out for herself the better.
She's recently started self-soothing to sleep at night (yay!), so I thought maybe it would help her get back to sleep after night wakings, but no luck. I need to nurse her each time.
Anything I can try to make this rolling thing go by faster? Or will she just figure it out for herself in another week or so.
