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When my baby was first born I put him in his cot on his back untill one night he was sick and was suffocating on his vomit. His dad had to put his mouth over the baby mouth and nose and suck the vomit out to clear his air way. He was turning blue. From then on he would not sleep in his cot. Only his buggy. I would spend ages rocking him in the buggy to get him to sleep. Now he sleeps on his belly in his cot. He has been sick again and he can lift his head out of it and he can also go round in circles on his front so I know if he is sick again he can at least lift his face out of it.

I've always put Kian to sleep on his back, he's 8 weeks old now & quite forward, he's started to roll onto his side a bit!x

I always PUT luke on his back but he has a tendancy to roll onto his side.

Riley is always on his back :) Sometimes he falls asleep on my chest so he's on his tummy but when i put him down i put him on his back :) x

I put Summer on her side since she was born as the mw in the hospital put her on her side as soon as she was born, now though I always try and get her to sleep on her back

my baby always goes to sleep on her back but now she is 6 and a half months old she always turns onto her tummy during the night, i was scared the first time i saw her like this xx

I always put my LO to sleep on his back but now he is older he sleeps in all sorts of positions, on his side, his front, on his knees, he has even been known to fall asleep standing up lol xxxxx

aw, i just want my baba out now!! Even though im only 7 weeks. :L

My daughter has never wanted to sleep on her back, she has to sleep on her side when we were in hospital they put her to sleep on her side. x

@Katherine did you mean on their front? Babies are always meant to sleep on their back but after 6 months if they turn onto their side/tummy you don't have to keepy moving them back onto their back x

i'm glad i read this because i did not know that it was ok for a baby to sleep on his/her back after 6 months and i did wonder

lottie is such a wriggler! she sometimes manages to turn over completely!

Emma used to sleep on her back she now LOVES sleeping on her side aha. They'll roll over no matter what, its what their comfortable doing :P

My son has always slept on his back but now that hes 7 months, he sleeps on his side as he's more mobile. Hes slept through ever since I stopped breastfeeding too :)

my baby starts of on her back n ends up on her side =) xx

my son has always slept on his back so he is pretty safe but i am worried about when he starts rolling over how would you stop them going on there fronts by themselfs?? x

My son is 9 months now and i just leave him to it but i used to wake myself up when he was younger just to check he was on his back :)

Yup I'll have to rmember this for my little girl

My Son is just over 5months & is still in his Moses Basket which is brill as he can't roll over in it :) xx

My son is 1 and i always put him on his back but he always ends up on his front on his knees with his bum in the air! is that dangerous because he seems comfy like that x

my daughter sleeps on her back :) but she loves to roll on her side and sleep im like no no missy and gently put her back on her back. poor little girl dont want her having a dead arm or decides to roll over to front and theres me not knowing!

omg how am i gonna remeber all this information..theres soo much this seems like a scary business

my son always always sleeps on his back and in his own crib. my son sleeps for anywere between 3-6 hours a time.

wouldnt dream of putting my baby anything other than her back she sleeps 14hours a night at 4months old :D

always placed my son on his back, he was fine.

I know this probably sounds daft but is this just in moses basket/cot etc or is this if your cuddling too. Alyssa loves to snuggle upto mum/dad/nan/gramps n auntie on her tummy and she'll fall asleep in minutes lol. Never really gave it much thought when she was cuddling us but now that I'm becoming increasingly nervous about cot death this question has me wondering? xxx

my lil man sleeps on his back but no he can roll over now so i will put him on his back but its up 2 him wat he does next. x

my abigail always slept on her back, but my chlé slept on her side from day one, no matter how often i would put her on her back she would turn on her side again

my little boy is two now and always wants to sleep on his front, i used to always put him on his back but no i have no choice lol , hes old enough now any way

I'll be sleeping bubs on the back, I know of people who have lost babys to cot death and I wont take any chances

ayla will only sleep on her back

My first would be start off on her back and always end u on her side, my second will not sleep without being on her front! Even if i put her already asleep on her back, the next time i look at her she'll be on her front. I heard it was ok for them to be on their front as long as they can roll over by themselves- at least thats what my health visitor told me! Both my girls were sleeping through the night at 2 weeks old :)

my 2 children was always put to bed lay on there backs but would always end up on their fronts ... i would keep putting them back but they would still flip! and now mikey is 4 and he sleeps on his front with his bum in the air! but keep flipping them babies back onto their back its better to be safe than sorry !!

sienna always go down on her back but ALWAYS tuns on her side or front

both of my children i placed on their back and they still sleep on their back or side i have never seen them sleeping on their front. My sister died of cot death so i read up a lot on it and i always made sure they didnt lie on their front.

Mine sleeps on his back fine! Hates lying on his front! Maybe that'll change....but all good for now!

Tasha41 - At six months you don't need to keep getting up all night to check that your baby is still on their back or wake her up. After this age, babies can usually roll over on to their backs themselves so leave her to find her own position. But whatever your baby's age always put them down on their back.

Jess08 - Your baby should settle fine on the back. Babies settle more easily on their backs if they have been placed to sleep that way from the very first day.

My daughter goes down on her back but always flips to her front and ends up at the other end of her crib- if I flip her I know I will wake her. Is it still important to flip them back after 6 months (she is about 7 months now)

i hope my baby gets into a routine of sleeping on his/her back it really is quite worrying i didnt realise how serious it was. x

Athena will only sleep on her back lol. She HATES her tummy still. She wants to be able to move and she can't so she hates it. She wakes up to play at 4 every morning though. I hate it... Then doesn't go back to sleep till 8 to 10... By then it's to late for me to go back to sleep.... It stinks but I do it for her.

I know i love sleep i just hope my son does too..and doesnt keep me awake all hours of the night haha! xx

Scares me so much, some of the babies at nursery (6 weeks plus) kept sleeping on their fronts! pannicks me! Hopefully my lil girl will love sleep as much as her mummy does!

Suki I know what you mean - my 2 fell asleep on the boob all the time and I'd just let them do it coz it was easier - once they were weaned then they screamed the place down when I put them to bed and they still do (omg!!) but they will learn eventually (I hope they do anyway!),

arrgh 5am! nightmare i can't functino until at least 6.30. I'm all ruight there though. Problem i have is getting them to sleep at night. Hours of crying, guilt, settling and re-settling, going to sleep on hte boob and thene needing boob again to get bak to sleep. Too tored to properly sort it out though. Anything to get them to sleep.

Minty you are so lucky, it's not fair!!! I cannot function without a good night's sleep! Thank god mine sleep through now - took them long enough, they're nearly 4 & 2 now, the little rascals! Saying that, they still get up at 5am!!!

I heard that they sleep better on the back if they have always slept that way. Lucky Minty for having a baby who sleeps well!!!

I'm so lucky my baby sleeps almost as much as me!! :)