u/Illustrious_Sleep767

Today we decided to start Ferbering our 18 week old. We decided to intervene after an hour. I know you need to fully commit but we were just experimenting today. He’s usually a pretty good sleeper and only wakes twice at night, the struggle is more when putting him down for a night.

He eventually fell asleep after about a half hour of check-ins but would wake up again after ten minutes and cry. He usually doesn’t have any false starts at night. This continued for about an hour so my husband went in and picked him up and he fell right asleep.

Has anyone had this experience with the false starts? He should have been perfectly tired. We do 2ish/2ish/2ish/2.5ish, daytime sleep is around 3.5 hours, today was a bit over 4. last nap ended around 5:45 and we put him down around 8

My husband and I were discussing this with our 4 month old who loves to roll onto his stomach to sleep but hates being placed on his back. I understand before a baby can roll to their belly it’s important to put them to sleep on their back. But after they can roll to their belly, they’re allowed to stay on their belly to sleep but still be placed on their back to start out. Why can’t you just put them on their belly awake if they are able to move their head/face at this point? Just curious if actual SIDS risks at this stage of development.