There is no specific time limit for infants to sleep on their stomachs, but parents should pay attention to infant breathing to avoid suffocation.
1. As the spinal development is still immature, sleeping on the stomach for a long time can easily lead to breathing problems, which may affect the development of the spine in serious cases, so you need to help the child to change the sleeping position, usually try to avoid infants sleeping on their stomachs.
2. Infants of different ages, different physical, lying down to sleep time should be adjusted appropriately, in general, the age of infants, lying down to sleep time can be appropriately longer, in the process of lying down to sleep, to closely observe the child’s breathing, face, abnormalities, to immediately change the child’s position.
Infants who sleep on their stomachs for a long time, need to take the child to the hospital pediatrics to rule out the existence of disease factors leading to poor sleeping posture.