Is tummy sleeping ok?

Question

My daughter (5 weeks) sleeps so well on her stomach. She’s been napping that way because I can watch her and it’s great. Most of my close mom friends (3,3 and 5 children) have all put their babies on their tummy to sleep from a pretty young age. My gut says she’ll be fine sleeping on her tummy at night but the anxiety and mommy guilt is real. Her sleep surface is firm, no smokers in the house, sleep sack and no blankets, or stuffed animals nearby. She’s in a pack n play in our room and were breastfeeding plus she uses a pacifier so stomach sleeping would be the ONLY risk factor. She’s full term and very healthy. Feeling very conflicted!

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Until she can roll on her own it’s not recommended. Even if she was full term and otherwise healthy SIDS is very real and can happen to any baby. At this age they can stop breathing very easily in their sleep if they’re on their stomach and can’t roll over on their own. Doesn’t seem worth the risk.

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My pediatrician told me straight up, “they don’t actually know why babies die from sids. So in order to find out they tell different generations different things and back it up with “research”. After all people believe what they read as long as google says it’s true. When we were kids our parents were told to lay us on our stomachs or we would die from sids, and here we still are-alive and well.”  My daughter slept on her stomach from when she was 2 weeks old. She’ll be 2 in 5 months. Alive and well. I personally believe that it’s just something that happens. SIDS is very real, but I let my child sleep comfortably cause she would not sleep AT ALL on her back when she was a newborn and still won’t now that she’s a toddler. (Honestly all you Mom’s that want to judge and tell me how bad of a mom I am for risking my child’s life can kiss my ass🙃 cause I said what I said and meant what I said-not my fault y’all believe every little thing y’all read)

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No tummy sleeping momma not until she can fully rollover which they learn to do as early as 4 months 👍🏻

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Tummy sleeping allows babies to sleep deeper and if they stop breathing they dont always start breathing on their own again so it can be a huge risk. The rate of sids is drastically lower in babies that sleep on their backs.

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Whether the risk is .0000001% or 5%, why would you even take the risk. This is your child’s life. God forbid something happened, and you hadn’t done every thing you could to make sure she was safe while sleeping.

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Personally I wouldn’t do it because even if the rick is only 0.05 percent I wouldn’t want to take the chance honestly even once my son can roll over on his own I will still put him to sleep on his back and if he chooses to roll over at night then atleast I know he can roll back and forth and will if he can’t breathe that way

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My oldest was a tummy sleeper but I was a nervous first time mom so she slept on her tummy on me till she could lift her head then she slept on her tummy in bed next to me.

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I was told once they can roll over by themselves its okay.
Since the SIDS guidelines have been in place the rate of SIDS and accidental suffocation has been dramatically reduced, so it's clear the guidelines work.  
The reason they don't recommend tummy sleeping is that babies sleep more deeply when in their tummy. They don't fully understand the mechanism of SIDS, but they know the risk for SIDS is increased when the baby is sleeping more deeply.
It is hard to estimate what the exact risk is for your particular child, and its your place as the parent to judge how much risk you are willing to accept.

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Only once they can roll. They sleep better on their tummies because it’s a deeper sleep. And that is exactly why its a greater SIDS risk, because their underdeveloped brains have a harder time waking them up if they are sleeping so soundly.

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When he was a month old, my baby would only sleep on his tummy or in bed with me. He already had very good neck and head control at that age. His pediatrician said that although she recommends sleep in back if the option his between tummy sleep or unplanead co-sleeping, then tummy sleep was safer. That's because he had a good neck control and working ER she saw a lot more accidents with babies during co-sleep. So I still tried to put him on his back but if he wouldn't having it I put him on his tummy. Eventually he get used to sleep on tummy.

Is tummy sleeping ok?

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