Face down NOW!!

My son doesn't sleep like a normal baby (I think) which shouldn't surprise me since I know what stock he comes from but still, sometimes it causes problems. He loves falling asleep on me and now sleeps face down in his cot. This, naturally, has me worrying like a woman since I think "oh god what if he can't breathe because he's face down on the mattress?" then my male brain kicks in and says "well, he'll simply move his head" and I'm fine.

But I put him to bed on his back and he bursts into tears because a)he doesn't like sleeping on his back and b)he doesn't want to go to bed. Tears become floods and my fairly tough heart starts cracking because he's properly upset so I go pick him up and as soon as he's on my chest, he's asleep. I give him five minutes, lay him back into the cot on his back and guess what - yup, he's wide awake and screaming at me.

This repeated itself quite a few times one night 'til I put him down on his stomach and rubbed his back. He did scream but it was that over-tired kinda screaming that dies in volume with every breath.

I checked on him just before I went to bed and found him up at the top of his cot, still face down but sleeping on his knees and elbows! It's hard trying to muffle laughter when you're trying to be a serious dad :p