sleeping on tummy

is there ANY way i can make my 7 week old that loves & sleeps best on his tummy safe? i fully know its not safe but he hasn’t properly slept in 2 days unless we put him on his tummy. is there any possible way to make this safe sleep? sincerely an exhausted mom
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Unfortunately no. I know the sleep deprivation is so hard. My daughter would only sleep held as a newborn and then woke up every 2 hours till she was 1. So I totally get the desperation here. But there is no way to make it safe.

@Haley thank you, i figured as much but thought it wouldn’t hurt to ask🥲

Put a weighted stuffy on his belly while he’s swaddled and sleeping in the first 5-10 minutes, and only while supervised.

As long as you are constant eyes the whole time, it should be safe

No, unless you're awake watching and feeling them breathe. But even that is risky. You could fall asleep if you're sleep deprived. My son woke up every 30 minutes and it was horrible and he did not sleep through the night until he was 16 months old! Hardest time in our lives, but we made it through the other side of the tunnel and saw light again. Which was sleep!

It’s not considered safe however my son would only sleep on his stomach too and I had asked his pediatrician about it and he said that it was OK during the day if I monitored him I also had a sock monitor for oxygen so I used that when he was a baby and it never went off saying that his oxygen went low or anything like that, but I don’t think I let him do that until he was about three months old and the sock monitors FDA approved

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