Rolling, teething and puking

[Countjc]

I've always had excellent advice in the past on here and am wondering if anyone can give me some pointers with a few things and wondering if they all might be linked?

My 4 month old son has always been a great sleeper (terrible feeder though, you can never win) but has started rolling in his sleep and waking up on his front wailing. He has yet mastered how to roll back over and he is obviously not comfortable sleeping on his front. I was thinking of bolstering up the sides of his cot to stop him rolling but worried about him shoving his face into whatever I use. Do you think I should just put up with this as a 'phase' and hope he either stops or learns to flip forward?

He has also been teething the past few weeks, producing huge amounts of drool, really flushed cheeks and biting on everything. Am trying all the usual suggestions, such as teetha, cooled teether toys, sophie the giraffe etc and that seems to help his pain but he is also puking like crazy which started around the time of teething (just after his 16 week jabs). It seems to happen about 2 hours after a feed and he is not in any discomfort but there is a lot of it but quite mucousy which makes me think its all the saliva he is swallowing. And to top it off he is back to doing new born type nappies - about 6 a day and weirdly (apologies for too much detail) it much more like breastmilk poop even though he is now fully on formula. GP and health visitor have put it all down to teething and say it's definately not reflux as no pain or back arching. I just wondered if anyone else had this experience and knew of a way to ease the puking. Oh and that gets worse every time he rolls and if I turn my back for a moment he is face down in it! Or again is it just a phase and hopefully the poor little man will soon stop requiring 6 changes a day!

Edited to add: have just started him on some baby rice on the advice to wean early as he is big and showing all the signs. Also took him to see a cranial osteopath but have yet to see an improvement.

Sorry for the rather random topics and graphic details but EDF always seems to have good answers! Thanks in advance

J

[Ole]

Hi, I also had the throwing up with mine, exactly the same thing 2 hours after giving him solids (and quite mucosy sometimes too). This started when I weaned him at 6 months so I started a food diary and realised that he was throwing up 2 hours after eating potato (!!!!), so I stopped giving him potato and so far no more vomiting. He also started going through 10 nappies a day but that didn't last long about 2 weeks. The GP at the time said it was a bugs. he is nearly 10 months old now and one day soon I will give him some potato see how he gets on. Looking back he was also starting teething at the time so who knows if it is related. I used to worry too but now I know it is just 'one of those things'!

My baby also rolls and at the moment he likes to sleep facing down with his bottom in the air. Sometimes he wriggles into impossible positions against the cot bars and wakes up with bar marks all over his face, but if I try to change his position he wriggles back, so it must be comfy for him!

[Saffron]

Have you tried giving smaller feeds more often? Some people believe teething coincides with development changes to the gastrointestinal tract... which seems odd until you realise that teeth are part of the digestive system ... it may also go some way to explaining why many babies have diarrhea with teething.

[pebbles]

I rolled up towels and put on either side of mine. It worked more often than it didn't but basically it's just a matter of waiting it out until he starts rolling back. Really annoying phase.