Rishab - Rolling in sleep

New milestone - rolling. This is an important milestone which Rishab achieve quiet some time back maybe around 3.5 months. Initially I was scared as he hated to roll over or maybe was too lazy to roll over.. i thought so... he would initially turn only half from tummy to back then 3/4 turn and then roll back to his back.. then once in a way he would turn on completely to his stomach and also turn back from tummy to back. This all was done with lots of effort from our end. hubby and me would place an object exactly at north-east between his head and arm to attract him to turn to his left. So we considered this milestone done and achieved until a few days back when my son decided he should practice and perfect this action.

My parents were very happy that he started turning 4-5 times continuously on the bed till he reach the edge of the bed by the time he was 5.5 months. We all were happy .. but now as he gets aware of this milestone .. my darling son has decided to practice it in his sleep. Waaaooh !! how diligent ... practicing in sleep... so this is how our typical night goes off nowadays... Dear son will sleep off at 9.00 pm on his left side... Then somewhere between midnight and 1.30am he decides he need to practice rolling (in his sleep obviously) and he turns onto his tummy (flip in a nano second) Next he starts a battle with himself.. trying to turn back to his back or side.. he tries for 2-3 minutes but since he is soooooo sleepy and sooooo in his dreams he decides he can't do it on his own... And of course at night time there is no light on for him to make his judgement to turn over... So what does he do.. complain not cry he will make grunting sound like "eh eh" to call us.. then either one of us will get up go and turn him onto his back.. then he will again struggle to get onto his side.. We wait till he gets his position to sleep. Then we sleep back... Again after 2 hours he has turned onto his stomach and calls for us to change his positon. This typically happens 3-4 times at night. But each time we go to him we feel so bad for him.. pity that he is in so much sleep and cant turn himself  and so disturbs himself and his sleep. Very gently we turn him back to his comfortable position and just watch him for a couple of minutes.  Though I should say sometimes we find him so funny trying to turns himself back to his back. Somewhere we murmur and laugh to ourselves "Rishab who told you to turn over dear.. you did it yourself sweetheart".

Now he sleeps on a matress on the floor to avoid falling down. Earlier it was more action-filled night when he slept in the cot. His legs would get caught between the railing of the cot or he would dash his head against the railings .. in the process to roll back ... so we realized he could not be kept there any longer. My baby has grown and needs more space.

We know this too will pass once he masters rolling back in his sleep. As we look in awe a baby who never knew how to move an inch when he was born to now when he needs almost the whole bed as he moves about everywhere... the journey has been satisfying and fulfilling.