Please help: Baby rolls onto his stomach and then cries.

Throughout the day and night, we will hear baby boy crying and find him on his stomach. We will flip him over, and he rolls right back to his stomach. I'm not sure what we can do about this. He knows how to roll back but just doesn't. Instead, it looks like he is trying to crawl but gets frustrated that he can't. I don't know what to do. From 2 to 4, I spent the night flipping him over. Has anyone else gone through this? He is currently about 5 months and a week old.

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I've not had this through the night (yet, i only said to my husband yesterday that this would happen), but definitely during the day. I think my LO has forgotten how to roll from tummy to back, so I'm trying to spend more time getting him to practice that again. Might be worth trying? Other than that I'm not sure. Hope he stops soon for you though! X

My little boy does this and he’s the same age. Luckily he sleeps through the night but getting him to sleep he does the same. Even when he’s trying to nap, he goes on his tummy. Tries to crawl and gets so mad. I roll him back to kind of show him. I know it’s annoying but hopefully he’ll learn how to do it on his own. For now just assist that’s what I’ve had to do x

My boy does this. Only just started too. Hoping it's a phase

When my little girl learnt to roll all she would do is roll over and then decide she didn’t want to actually be on her stomach and cry! But no matter how much we rolled her back she’d just keep rolling over! I just took it as she’s learned a new trip and because she can roll over she was doing it for the sake of it😂 I never found a way around it she just eventually got stronger and didn’t find it so exciting x

My boy is the same. Just out of the 4 month regression and now this is the new thing keeping us up all night 🫠 hoping it's a short phase x

Mine is doing it too and it’s super inconvenient!

My sleep consultant told me to leave him to fuss it out as he would probably enjoy sleeping on his tummy but I just can’t stomach (like the pun? 😝) the idea of letting him cry when he can’t figure it out himself.

For now I’m flipping him 3 times a night 😂

Ps: I call it the sheet swimmer since he literally looks like he’s drowning in the cot 🫣

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When does it get better?

I was crying on the phone with the perinatal mental health team today and the lovely lady, bless her, kept assuring me that it gets better. I kept telling her I hope so because people have been saying that since having my LO and it just feels like it keeps getting worse. She assured me it gets better....

Rant/WWYD

My sister (youngest, 24) has two kids, 4 & 1, and i (oldest, 30) just have my one who’s 6mo old right now, so i ask her for advice or call her to vent about things sometimes. Well im tired of her turning around and telling my other family members that I’m “losing my sh*t.” Literally have not lost my sh*t nor have i ever freaked out to her about my baby, i just call her to talk and tell her what stage my baby is in or talk through how im feeling, but she chooses to tell people that im like a complete nutcase or something which worries me that my family is going to start being judgmental about me as a mother or looking at me funny like I’m some fragile ticking time bomb.

What would you do in this situation? I’m already pretty much decided that I’ll stop telling her anything about my struggles, but I’m almost at the point where i feel like it should be confronted because she, of all people, should understand what I’m going through.

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I’m going crazy. Baby born at 2.26kg. Slow to put on weight. This last week hasn’t put on any. Been trying to feed him at night and he’s not interested at all. Fast asleep. During day he will have 5 minute gulps and that’s it. He don’t cry for milk. I’ve got to keep offering to him. I try to offer it every hour but I don’t know what I’m doing. HV said nutrition comes after 5 minutes so I should pump first and then give him. I find it so hard. I tried to pump one boob nothing came. The other abit came. Tried giving him express he’s not interested in that too. Sometimes he will go for a longer a feed but not long at all. He’s 4 months and is currently 5.46kg. I have no family or friend support here and wish I had a cook, cleaner and nanny to help with everything so I can concentrate on the little one. I don’t know what’s wrong with him but I’m loosing it. It doesn’t help that my also stressed generally about my relationship and life circumstances. Any advice that will work. Any comfort you can give. I’m fed up. Is this regression - not feeding. He’s fast fast asleep. I’ve been trying to push the nipple in but that mouth is closed shut. I took some clothes off. Changed his nappy but he’s still asleep. Please help

Sleeping bag

8 week old in sleeping bag for first time as big enough! Do you feed your child in the night whilst in the sleeping bag or taken them out, feed then transfer back to sleeping bag before putting down?

i just want someone to talk to😔😔😔😔

when things get hard i have nothing not any support from my partner im convinced he doesn’t even love me anymore but thats another story
I have a 3 yo and a 2yo that are in bed sleeping only just now. I have a 1 yo that’s been sleeping from 8 o’clock to 10 o’clock. I just gave her her milk and she would’ve gone back to sleep if it wasn’t that
I lost her dummy earlier in the day when I went out
so now she won’t go back to sleep and she won’t accept any of the other dummy’s i have!😔😔and it’s 10 o’clock and I’m gonna be up until 3 o’clock with her and when she does want to go to sleep i won’t have any dummy to give her she will accept and she won’t sleep without it i just wanna cry 😔i have nobody to talk to and i feel so alone i get no support from anybody i’m so tired and i don’t feel well to top it off😔

Has anyone died their kids hair a fun color and have any recommendations for kid friendly hair dye that actually works and stays in the hair for a bit? 👀👀👀

She has 3b brown hair and wants kpop demon hunter purple