Back or tummy?

My son was born at 37 weeks. They said he was border line preemie. Weird way to put it but whatever, I didn't come up with it. He had fluid in his lungs so he wasn't breathing regularly and they had him on his stomach the whole time he was in the NICU. It was only 3 days, but still. I never thought about it until you brought it up. My son is 2 now, so this was a while ago. So I have no idea why they put them on their stomachs.

Both of my babies were in the NICU and the only reason that they do this is because they are at all times monitored and there are nurses assigned to every baby all the time. It's different when they come home. There are no monitors, no nurses, no doctors. Just you and baby. So be smart. Don't try to do something that NICU did because they had the ability to do. Back to sleep and tummy for play!

I just had a baby and my pediatricians and the hospital where I gave birth placed all babies on their backs to sleep and instructed us to lay him on his back to sleep. We were told to give him some "tummy time" every day. He is now 6 months old with a perfectly shaped head. Maybe it is different since she is only a 33 week preemie and her head may be even softer than a full term baby? I'm not sure.

The pediatrician will check the babies head every visit to make sure it is not getting a flat head. If the baby is getting a flat head they will instruct some more tummy time and may put this helmet like thing on their head to wear until their head is back to its shape.

When my mom had me 25 years ago they were told to place babies on their tummies to sleep to prevent SIDS. Now things have changed. However, I lived, and so did my husband who was also placed on his tummy to sleep when he was a baby. Different mothers do different things.

Still the back. Skulls will "pop" out when baby sits up well. My oldest had a misshaped skull and is almost completely gone now. I would never put my baby on his tummy to sleep.

No, babies until they are 18 months need to be put to sleep on there backs. To prevent mishapped skulls, it's important to give all babies "tummy time". You put them on there tummies for 5 minutes about 3-4 times a day. You have to stay there and watch them while they have there tummy time. This may have been what the hospital was doing.

We used a wedge pillow. It kept our daughter on her side. It consists of 2 triangular pillows connected with a cloth that the baby lays on and it holds them on their sides. Yiou can put them on the other side the next night by turning the wedge around. Since the back wedge is longer than the front.

Worked wanders.

Well most hospital do out babies on their back so that is strange.However,I do not see anything wrong with it.My son has been sleeping on his tummy since he was a week old & it works great for us.If it works,let him sleep like that.

we don't even lay our son on his back if he is sleeping. We lay him on his side and prop him up with a small infant wedge pillow. This way if he vomits it flows out of his mouth instead of choking him and he does not get any type of mishapen head. And yes if you do lay them on their back all the time they get a flat spot on the back of the head. I have two cousins who were constantly on their back and they are noticibly flat, even with thick hair to cover it. My son doesn't like tummy time anyhow, but I've heard of lots of moms putting their babies to sleep on their tummies, cause that's the only way they will sleep. As long as you watch them you're probably okay.

Well I don't really know I am going to go to college to become a RN and I don't have any kids myself so you really need to ask a doctor of a nurse who works it that department.

placing babies on their backs can make their trachea flaps not operate correctly causing "grunting" noises preventing them from breathing properly