Baby rolling in cot, getting stuck and crying

Did anyone else’s baby roll in their cot until they reached the side then cry? My son is 4.5mo doing this constantly. he can only roll onto his tummy then back in one direction. Nights consist of me readjusting him for about 2 hours until he decides he won’t roll anymore and go to sleep. He has to sleep on his tummy or he’ll just cry.
I do put him down on his back.

Did anyone else go through this?

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Can you not place him closer to the other side so when he rolls he doesn’t make it all the way across to the bars?
Definitely no bumpers, it’s not just suffocation but strangulation xx

I’ve tried putting him closest to the bars he’s rolled away from. He keeps going until he reaches the other side. If I place him close to the other side so when he rolls he’s against the bars almost, he’ll get his bum in the air and wriggle until he gets on his back and is like wedged against it. The solution I feel would be him learning to roll both ways but he can’t quite get there yet so I’m having to go readjust. I leave him to cry it out for short periods so he doesn’t expect me to come fix him straight away and help him work it out but he’s persistent haha

This is why I ordered crib bumpers. There are mesh ones at Walmart or Target, even Amazon same brand- to not worry about suffocating. Crib bumpers have been used since before I was born. Once my daughter was 5-6 mo old & her feet went up onto the bumpers making her legs still go in between the crib slats I had to get thick blankets & make walls lol. One of my cousins back in 2015 had 2 kids. One was 2 & the other was 4-5 mo old. She got her foot caught in the crib & the baby screamed crying. Babies don't know how to get out of being stuck. But the baby was smart because she had crib bumpers & her feet were getting caught over the bumpers 🤣💖 I straight up tied blankets tight on the inside of my daughter's crib. Idk if they make a mesh inside to cribs but I won't be buying a crib with baby #2. I always had issues with legs or arms in the slats.. Basically the pack n play became my daughters bed until 2.5 when I got her a twin size house bed. So she used the crib from what... 4 months old-6 months lol.

Yeah we had about a week of him rolling to his belly and getting stuck because he couldnt roll back I just had to keep going in there to help him then he finally fell asleep and got used to it

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