Please no negative comments, it is my choice as a parent to put my son on his belly to sleep.
My little man is 3 months old and sleeps on his belly for naps and night time sleep and has done since 2-3 weeks old. I have been trying to figure out why he doesn't like sleeping in his swing, pram and carseat (especially car seat, he will scream until he chokes - will NOT go to sleep at all) and I think because he sleeps on his belly he doesn't like to sleep another way. Have any others experienced this? How did get them to sleep in the car? When did they grow out of it? Please tell me they grow out of it?? I also have a 17 month old so not going anywhere isn't an option.
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Forgot to mention that he has silent reflux and is on Losec for it, still waiting for it to kick in tho (been nearly 2 weeks).
What type of carseat? Capsule or convertible rf? It might be squishing him up a bit especially with the reflux? See if a different seat that lies him out straighter woulds help.
A trip to a chiro might also help.
I don't see an issue with sleeping on their tummies it was what they used to recommend anyway. My 2mo son sleeps on either his tummy or side he hates his back but that's more to do with reflux. Find a good paeds Chiro tho to check your lil one out just to make sure nothing else is going on. My son also hates that car seat so I'm no help there. I do think your son may be used to his tummy so you might have to start putting him on his back for 5mins at a time to get him used to it. I had the opp problem with my first loved his back hated his tummy & this is what we had to do to get him used to it. Good luck