
Keep an eye on your baby’s position during sleep, especially if your baby sleeps on his stomach. Babies sleeping on his stomach have its benefits and risks. Benefits of a baby sleeping on his stomach are having a better head shape. Meanwhile the risk is the majority of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) or cot death, associated with prone sleeping position.
Although until now the main cause of SIDS is not known for certain, you should still need to be careful and monitor your baby’s sleeping position. Prone sleeping put pressure on the baby’s jaw, thus narrowing the respiratory tract.
Preventing SIDS is the most important reason to put your baby to sleep on her back, but a study published in 2003 in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine found other benefits, too: Infants who sleep on their back suffer from fewer ear infections, fevers, and stuffy noses than babies who sleep in other positions.
Sleep on her back is the safest position for baby. But it’s okay for baby to sleep on his stomach, but note some of the following tips when your baby is sleeping on his stomach:
• Do not let your baby sleep on his stomach too long. The prone sleeping position makes it difficult to breathe in baby. Two to three minutes the baby is not breathing and parents do not know this, it can be fatal risk.
• Ensure safe conditions around the baby, no toys or objects that could potentially harm the baby. In addition, make sure the baby supervised.
• Make sure the baby’s head can rotate freely as he slept in the prone position. Note also the ability to mobilize, whether he was able to turn his head or not. If the baby is still having trouble, should not be put to sleep in the prone position.

