Silly doctors.

I think the person who said that babies sleeping on their bellies could potentially cause SIDS doesn't really know what they are talking about. More often than not, I think doctors and other professionals don't have an explanation for medical problems, SIDS included, so they tell people what to do and what not to do to prevent that problem from happening. In fact, I think it is kind of ridiculous for doctors to tell people the worst case scenario when it most likely will never come to that. For example, when I was pregnant, I went to the doctor for a checkup and to listen to baby's heartbeat. When the doctor was trying to find his heartbeat she says "Oh, that sounds like an irregular heartbeat." She then switches to the other side of my stomach where she could hear his heartbeat better, and as it turned out, his heartbeat wasn't irregular at all. My question is, why would you even say something like that without being sure first? She's lucky I wasn't overly emotional that day because I can only imagine what some pregnant people would do if she caused panic like that to them. Another example of being told the worst case scenario was when baby K was born with jaundice and the doctor said that if it gets high enough it could cause brain damage. It freaked me out. I worried for DAYS because of that comment.

Anyway, I have been putting him on his belly to sleep for naps and I think he sleeps better that way. I have put him on his side to sleep too. My mom put me on my stomach to sleep all the time when I was younger and I didn't die from SIDS. I think it is kind of funny that they used to tell new parents to not have their babies sleep on their backs because if the baby spit up, they might choke on it. Pretty soon they will tell us that babies can't sleep at all because something terrible will happen if they do.