A Sad Day...

Before

After

If you have talked to me in the past few days you know there has been one thing on my mind...should I let my son sleep on his tummy like he wants? Being a nurse, with a doctor for a husband, we teach (or taught in my case) people all of the time that "back is best" for sleep with babies. Well, that has worked well for us until now. Rhonald and I have been working very hard with Cole to get him to start putting himself to sleep and, most importantly, to stop waking up so much at night. We knew the wake ups were out of habit (like every hour wake ups) and it just didn't seem healthy for him or me. Cole is so smart and he caught on very quickly and is doing SO WELL with the sleep thing, however, he has found that sleeping on his tummy is the way to go. I think I have asked every mom I have run into their opinion and even went so far as to call our pedi about it (thank goodness she is a friend). The answer that each and every person gave me...if he rolls himself onto his tummy then let him stay. He rolls around all day and I know he can roll back over so I am becoming ok with that. Our pedi did recommend taking my cute bumper pad out of the crib though because he does get very close to it when he is sleeping. I love that crib set and I was so sad tonight when I had to take it down. Maybe I will get to use it again sometime....oh well....safety must come first!