Sleep ideas needed please!

DS turned one last week.
He has always been a tummy sleeper, and has been in a safety sleep for the last couple of months since he has been able to sit himself up.
All was good til 3 nights ago, when he started twisting onto his back inside the safety sleep and then screaming cos he cant sleep on his back. Not sure if he can physially turn himself back onto his tummy while inside the saftey sleep or not- he doesnt do it, he just screams. So we go turn him over and he settles, then soon enough hes back screaming on his back.
It has been really hot the last 3 nights too, so it may have something to do with that. Hes only wearing a short sleeve body suit- could try nothing I guess. Have tried having fan on, and have tried placing rolled up towels along each side of his body but he can still roll over.
I tired putting him down without the safety sleep for his nap this morning, he lay there, then 5 mins later I could hear him talking/playing.
Would appreciate any ideas please! We are exhauseted!

Yeah he can roll fine. Im happy to get rid of it, whatever works, but he was just playing when I tried to put him down without it. WIll try to undo it once he asleep, thanks. Hope the velcro noise doesnt wake him tho!

I would try getting rid of the safe t sleep too, so he can roll around as he needs to in the cot (and will probably be cooler without it too).

5 minutes of talking/playing doesn't seem like much, if it was 5 minutes of screaming I'd think otherwise. Could you try just leaving him to it and see if he goes off to sleep eventually? My nearly 2 year old ds chats to himself in his room often for about half an hour, just quietly winding down before he lies down to go to sleep.

Kellz if you are going to remove the safe-t-sleep while he's sleeping, you could always do it up the opposite way so it's not velcro'd and pin it. DS would always fully wake up when he worked out how to undo it, the noise is loud!

We are having our own sleep issues since DS started crawling/standing and he's a terrible self settler now but he's slowly getting better.

GL!

It does sound like it's time to get rid of the safety sleep. It usually only takes them a few days to adjust and since you're having to get up at the moment anyway it shouldn't be much worse. My 11mo too sits and plays before sleep but goes off when he's ready with only a little cry/wail. If i go in to look at him he's all over the place with his books on/under him. Cute.

I still use the safe t sleep for DD and she rolls all over the show with it - I put her to bed on her back and she always ends up on her tummy at some stage. I pin hers and dont have it on overly tight just enough to know it is there. I also wrap it the other way so the velcro doesnt need to be undone :)

i will try to get rid of it over the next few days but at the moment while we are still having bed time problems I will leave it.

Hope it all works out for you Kellz and he starts sleeping okay soon!

Well DS slept through last night.
DH did the safety sleep up a bit loser last night, and when I checked DS before I went to bed he was asleep on his back, and he was on his back this morning when DH got him up too.
So we think the problem must have been the heat. It was much cooler last night, but had been 25degrees overnight the last few nights.
Thanks for the tips everyone

That's great Kellz.