@Beverly – Thank you for reading and for sharing with us. It’s so very common for babies to enjoy sleeping on their stomachs. “Back to sleep” is the recommendation so please, first, be sure to check in with your little guy’s healthcare provider to ensure his safe sleeping. Most times, the growth and development babies his age experience comes from the activity and sleep he gets all throughout the day vs just in the way he sleeps. And it definitely wouldn’t be uncommon for him to change his preferred sleeping position at some point either. Hang in there, Beverly!

Thank you for sharing! Here is another article that questions the risks of putting babies on their backs to sleep with autism. Unfortunately, parents are not given the full extent of the facts and allowed to make their own judgement calls as to which sleeping position is best for their baby and their family. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4978628/#!po=19.3396

IssIe – go with your mama intuition – babies do love to sleep on their stomachs. They sleep more comfortably, can adjust their position as needed to expel burps or gas, and then settle back in for replenishing sleep : ) Their back, neck & arm muscles develop much quicker also – it’s what they were meant to do. When they sleep sounder, you sleep too and you are both happier when you awake. All this fussing to get them to sleep on their backs was created in the 1960s when new moms stopped listening to mamas and grammas in their families and were advised to seek knowledge of “experts”. Of course if you create more problems, new mamas will “need” more “consultants” and those consultants will make a lot of $$ “helping”. I’ve raised 5 children – followed my mommy intuition, while noticing examples of my mom and mom-in-law. All of my babies slept on their tummies and were happy babies and I was a happy mom! We are loving seeing our 5 now raise our 17 grandchildren – the tummy-slept grandchildren were happier and developed faster than the back-slept ones. Follow your mama intuition : )

Hi @Issie, thanks for reading – I am glad to hear the article was helpful! I don’t have any specific recommendations on the best cribs, but here is an article that may link you to some other resources that help you make the best decision for your baby: https://www.babysleepsite.com/how-we-sleep/baby-comfort-sleep/
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@Janet – congratulations on the 18th grandchild and thank you for you input to this discussion. 🙂

I agree with Erica. All of my 5 children slept from day 1 on their tummies. I breastfed all of them, started feeding rice cereal around 3 weeks. They were happy babies and I was a happy mommy. They all have college degrees, are married and we are expecting our 18th grandchild in August. Don’t stress out over all of the information out there. Stay in tune with your baby and incorporate them into your lifestyle. Ask your grandmas how they did it. Enjoy the discovery and sweet times of being a mama : )

Hi @Erica – Thank you for writing and letting us know what works for you and your family!