Love_Is_Patient
06-10-2005, 02:35 AM
When ds was born a friend lent us a pillow that is designed to keep babies sleeping on their side or back at night. It's basically two bolster-type pillows (cyclinders about 9 in. long and 12 in. circumference) connected by a piece of fabric (adjustable with velcro to leave a 5 in. to 10 in. gap). This allows you to prop the baby on his side or place him on his back and prevent rolling over while asleep.
We used this for the first 1 1/2 months as dh was concerned about him rolling on ds. Most people say that you are not actually likely to roll over on your baby, since while asleep you maintain an awareness of the space around you (this keeps you from falling out of bed). However, concern about this may keep you or your dh from sleeping well, and using the pillow helps alleviate this concern (since the bolsters provide a 'barrier' on either side of the baby). The drawback is that I found I had to take ds out of the pillow for breastfeeding--not such a big deal initially as I had to sit up to help him latch on and I was changing diapers at night wakings anyway. . .but eventually once I learned to nurse lying down and ds had grown a bit we stopped using it. However, I think you could keep using it if you were concerned about his rolling over to sleep on his stomach.
You can order this type of pillow on the internet--a quick search just revealed one called 'the first years back sleeper' from babyuniverse.com (costs $10). Or you could make one (they have a picture at babyuniverse if my description didn't make sense, lol).
--Rachel (mom to J, almost 4 months old!)
We used this for the first 1 1/2 months as dh was concerned about him rolling on ds. Most people say that you are not actually likely to roll over on your baby, since while asleep you maintain an awareness of the space around you (this keeps you from falling out of bed). However, concern about this may keep you or your dh from sleeping well, and using the pillow helps alleviate this concern (since the bolsters provide a 'barrier' on either side of the baby). The drawback is that I found I had to take ds out of the pillow for breastfeeding--not such a big deal initially as I had to sit up to help him latch on and I was changing diapers at night wakings anyway. . .but eventually once I learned to nurse lying down and ds had grown a bit we stopped using it. However, I think you could keep using it if you were concerned about his rolling over to sleep on his stomach.
You can order this type of pillow on the internet--a quick search just revealed one called 'the first years back sleeper' from babyuniverse.com (costs $10). Or you could make one (they have a picture at babyuniverse if my description didn't make sense, lol).
--Rachel (mom to J, almost 4 months old!)