rolling over...

[♥ms.pacman♥]

ack, so ironic that i had been waiting and waiting for DS (almost 5 months) to finally roll over..now that he finally has, i kinda wish he wasn't, as it has made life much harder for me at the moment!

the problem is, he can very easily roll over from his back to his tummy (which i guess makes no sense since every single book i've read said that rolling from back to tummy is harder than tummy-to-back, but whatever). it sucks because what has been happening recently is my son rolls over onto his tummy, then gets basically stuck there, and then in a few minutes starts crying his head off, spits up a fair amount, and buries his face in the mattress, more screaming, etc. this has been happening day and night. i can't put him down for more than a minute or two before he rolls over onto his tummy. for a while he is fine, but soon starts crying and he spits up a very decent amt (i guess from the pressure on his stomach). when i see that he is on his tummy & very upset and has spit up a lot etc i have been putting him back on his back but seriously, now it's 2:45 am, he has woken up crying twice already and i cannot be waking up every hour at night to put him on back on his back!! i had a horrible headache all day today bc in addition to AF visiting (hooray ) i did not get much sleep last night since i have been waking up at random hours of th night to him screaming and have been going to help him put him back on his back.

anyway, any suggestions would be appreciated... thing is, i am not sure about just letting him CIO right now bc i guess i'm just worried about if he actually get stuck and i'd be ignoring a genuine cry for help. for example, early this morning at 5am i came as he was screaming and he had been stuck on his tummy, with one side of his body pressed against the side of the crib, one of his feet caught in between two crib slats. eek!! after seeing that it's hard for me to ignore his cries bc i'm worried that he actually will need some help, KWIM? i've read some places that sleeping on their tummy is ok once they learn to roll over, but it seems like DS has not mastered rolling from his tummy to his back (i've only seen him do it like once or twice) and so am not sure if sleeping on his tummy (if he would eventually stop screaming and sleep like that) is the best idea right now...i don't know, am i being too paranoid?