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Wnt2beAMom
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Did any of your babies hate being swaddled too? I was just visiting a friend who just had her baby and he would cry if his arms were free. My son would throw a fit the day he was born if his arms weren't free...lol we never got him to like being swaddled. He also won't take a soother, and doesn't "comfort nurse". He only wants the boob if he actually is hungry. Lol
It was my sooky daughter who hated it lol.
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Wow, just reading back over these comments. My son was 4 months when I posted this but now he is 11 months and is everything all of you described! Like one of you said "he seems way older than he is- mentally....but not emotionally" He has started talking, walking, and getting into everything. He loves books, and playing with toys. Sometimes it feels like I can see him thinking, and he can entertain himself for a pretty long time...sometimes....other times the emotional side of him makes him just want to be held and to nurse constantly....then its like his mental side gets frustrated and he gets really mad at me when he wants to explore something he isn't allowed to!! Emotionally he doesn't understand the danger. He doesn't reason. Today he was studying the baby monitor and I think he actually understands that he is being watched by it. It is a camera one. I gave him the screen to look at and talked to him through the camera. And it was like it all finally clicked to him. So weird...
My friend's son is now 7 months and still like a "blob". I feel a tad of jealousy once in a while for how much easier her son seems for her to handle, but I do love how fast my son has accomplished milestones and how curious he is. He is always on the move and is stubborn as hell when he isn't happy and puts up quite a fight. He is very strong too. I totally forgot about his "whinning" when he was younger, until I read this! haha. It definitely was him being frustrated with his inabilities to move and being bored. He was such a happier child when he started crawling and pulling up on things! I laugh how I said he was only waking up 2x/night and easy to put to sleep but that didn't stay...I think because he is still so alert and curious he gets overstimulated and makes it hard for him to fall asleep or for me to notice when he is ready to be put to sleep...which makes him get overtired and then makes it also harder to put him to sleep and stay asleep. He wakes up probably 5-6x/night now. He also still doesn't like to stop what he is doing to even eat so he has really fallen off his growth curve. Now in the 5th percentile. Down from the 50th. I try to not make a big deal about food now though. I eat while he is playing and if he comes up to me I let him have some. If he starts getting fussy in the highchair I take him out. I don't want him to have a negative opinion of food by forcing and making him feel trapped in his highchair all the time and getting food forced on him. If it seems like he is asking to nurse very often, out of hunger and not comfort, I ask him "do you want to eat?" and he lets me put him into his highchair with less fight..but if I don't ask him....watch out. He will fight me tooth and nail so that I don't put him in that chair..
So, I wanted to see how you were all doing now? And I wanted to ask a little about yourselves....would you say you are pretty smart? I know it's egotistical to say but I think my husband and I are "above average" and I wonder if our DS is just so alert and the way he is because he is too....I've read alert babies potentially are that way because they have a high IQ.
My friend's son is now 7 months and still like a "blob". I feel a tad of jealousy once in a while for how much easier her son seems for her to handle, but I do love how fast my son has accomplished milestones and how curious he is. He is always on the move and is stubborn as hell when he isn't happy and puts up quite a fight. He is very strong too. I totally forgot about his "whinning" when he was younger, until I read this! haha. It definitely was him being frustrated with his inabilities to move and being bored. He was such a happier child when he started crawling and pulling up on things! I laugh how I said he was only waking up 2x/night and easy to put to sleep but that didn't stay...I think because he is still so alert and curious he gets overstimulated and makes it hard for him to fall asleep or for me to notice when he is ready to be put to sleep...which makes him get overtired and then makes it also harder to put him to sleep and stay asleep. He wakes up probably 5-6x/night now. He also still doesn't like to stop what he is doing to even eat so he has really fallen off his growth curve. Now in the 5th percentile. Down from the 50th. I try to not make a big deal about food now though. I eat while he is playing and if he comes up to me I let him have some. If he starts getting fussy in the highchair I take him out. I don't want him to have a negative opinion of food by forcing and making him feel trapped in his highchair all the time and getting food forced on him. If it seems like he is asking to nurse very often, out of hunger and not comfort, I ask him "do you want to eat?" and he lets me put him into his highchair with less fight..but if I don't ask him....watch out. He will fight me tooth and nail so that I don't put him in that chair..
So, I wanted to see how you were all doing now? And I wanted to ask a little about yourselves....would you say you are pretty smart? I know it's egotistical to say but I think my husband and I are "above average" and I wonder if our DS is just so alert and the way he is because he is too....I've read alert babies potentially are that way because they have a high IQ.
