Is It Safe For Baby To Sleep On Stomach On My Chest

My five week old baby only sleeps on my chest.

Is it safe for baby to sleep on stomach on my chest.

It helps to take any pressure off your stomach and unborn baby. He s still eating every 2 3 hours so he naps on my chest in between feedings all day and night. But you should still put him down to sleep on his back until he is a year old. When on my chest he is content and sleeps.

Prop a pillow under your hip bone and another one below your chest. Keep blankets and pillows out of the crib. Tips to be sleep comfortably in different positions. Try curling up or stretching out on your left side with a pillow between your legs.

Once your baby is strong enough to roll from back to front and front to back by himself you don t need to worry about him rolling onto his stomach during sleep. While sleeping on the stomach baby can inhale carbon dioxide which she has just exhaled. This increases her chance of sudden infant death syndrome sids. Also there is the fact that the safest place for baby to sleep is in a crib cot basket in the same room as you.

That s why baby shouldn t sleep on her side either. Baby sleeping on stomach equals baby breathing in less air. Always put your baby into the crib on her back not her side or her tummy. As does the danger of falling asleep whilst holding the baby like this and causing suffocation.

And stop swaddling once your baby has learned how to roll. The back to sleep applies. The short answer is no. While having a baby sleep on mother s or father s chest whilst parents are awake has not been shown to be a risk and such close contact is in fact beneficial sleeping a baby on their front when unsupervised gives rise to a greatly increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome sids also known as cot death.

The safe to sleep campaign on the website of the us department of health and human services cites the research explaining why is it not safe for babies to sleep on their stomach. My baby boy started sleeping on my chest at 6 weeks he is now 8 weeks he also suffers from reflux so he cant rest laying on his back and gets distressed. Loves tummy time though and has even fallen asleep on his stomach i didn t leave his side nobody panic. About 1 600 babies died of sids in 2015 the last year statistics were available.

All that said everyone has their own unique attitude to risk management. If they have a monitor they might feel they can put their baby on its belly to sleep or sleep with their baby you still need to follow safe sleep guidelines.