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Put your baby to sleep on her back - according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, this is the safest sleeping position anyway, at least for the first nine months. Above all, don't let your baby sleep on her tummy with her feet curved under her tummy as she did in the womb. This is the most common cause of prolonged, incurved feet in a baby and intoeing in a toddler. Encourage her to sleep on her back or side. As she gets older, if she continues to sleep on her tummy with her feet tucked underneath her, go into her bedroom before you retire and pull her feet out from beneath her. In my pediatric practice, I have encountered toddlers who refused to sleep any way other than on their tummies with their feet curved beneath them. If these babies were developing severe intoeing, some mothers found it helpful to sew the pajama legs together, forcing baby to sleep with her legs straight out.
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