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From the community

Recent discussions

Worried about lack of words

We only have mama and dada and it’s inconsistent. Should I be worried?

My son is 18 months old and he's been concerning me a little. He walks in his top toes sometimes, he always looks up at the ceiling/lights when he's being held/someone's talking to him.

He babbles and is saying words and he does respond to his name.

Does anyone else's baby do this?

Alert/ active babies

I am a first time mum and I seem to have a very active/alert baby for 15 weeks, for example she started rolling at 10 weeks. Im so proud of her but I find having an active/alert baby has its challenges, and I find it hard to talk about it with other mums. Eg. Napping/switching off and feeding

I feel I downplay what she can do and get anxious when I have shared her accomplishments in the past. I also feel awkward when she does something advanced infront of other mums, especially when they start saying “ x can’t do that yet”
I really want to be able to celebrate the big milestones as I feel it’s one of the joys of parenthood but instead I get anxiety.
I was just wondering if there are any other mums in the same boat?

Nursery settling

Second solo selling session this afternoon for an hour and a half, picked her up and she’d been screaming/crying for most the session. She is doing 2 days a week starting Thursday. So sad to see her like that. Any words of wisdom please 🙏🏻

10 months and not crawling - HV not concerned yet

Has anyone had any helpful input from a GP/ health or a GP/Pediatrician regarding this if that's the case for your little one? HV didn't seem concerned yet but he really isn't even holding the position when I help him to his knees. He does seem to have enough strength in his arms but it's like he pins his hips to the floor as soon as he's on his tummy. He also doesn't shoot from lying to sitting and doesn't really pull to stand yet on his own. He does want to be constantly in a standing position with me holding him up to balance.

I'm just really concerned as his brother crawled at 7mo and I can't help it. I know some kids skip it etc. But I'm just so worried. My back is also killing me which doesn't help. And when I try ping tummy time to force him to move he just screams!

Is this a phase!?

My son has been the best baby ever until about a week ago, I’m not saying he’s never cried or anything but he wouldn’t cry and complain at literally everything I did… in the last week all of a sudden he’s been refusing his naps (we’ve been transitioning from 2 to 1) he’s been crying everytime I leave the room (to go to the kitchen for something (it’s right next door)) he’s been wanting to be picked up every minute of the day it feels like… he used to play independently and used to be fine if I left the room but it’s changed all of a sudden and I’m wondering if anyone else is going through this “phase” or if it’s just me 🫩🙈

Clingy baby

Has anyone else’s baby become VERY clingy?

I can’t leave his sight at all as he’ll just cry until I’m back in his eye sight. Even his dad doesn’t do it for him it’s got to be me which isn’t very good as I do have a 2.5 year old as well at home😩

Hands

why is my almost 11 weeker sucking on his hands so much ?

Screeching

Does anybody else’s baby enjoy screeching and any tips on how to gently encourage them NOT to 😂? My baby is almost 9 months old and she’s been doing high pitched screeching and screaming on and off in phases since about 4 months. It seems to be mostly when she’s excited and also occasionally to express frustration but sometimes we have no idea why. It’s getting so loud that I think it’s actually starting to cause damage to both mine and my partners ear drums 😂 and he had tinnitus already. Any help appreciated! Even if it’s just to know we’re not the only ones 🙃

Sensory

Hey, my son is 3 coming up to 4 he isn’t diagnosed yet we are currently going through speech and language.
He constantly needs to rub my arm with his hand or rub his face on my arm, if I have a long sleeve top on he will say arm till I get my arm out. He sits next to me all day rubbing my arm and same at bed time I have to leave my arms out as he will wake and want my arm.
Just wanted to know if anyone else kids do same sort of thing xxx

First time mom wondering if this is normal

My son is 2.5 and has recently started this random habit of just yelling. Sometimes it's random noises, sometimes it's random words, sometimes it's random phrases. Most of the time it doesnt make sense for the moment.
I took him to a restaurant today and he started randomly yelling. We had just finished with an indoor playground so I figured he was just blowing off excitement. I explained that when we are at restaurants we have to use indoor voices, no yelling. He seemed like he was trying so hard not to yell and would hold his breath but would let out a yell. I saw his attempt to hold it in so I'd just whisper to him and he'd whisper back to me.

Is this normal? He just recently started talking and communicating as he was a bit behind in that milestone so is this part of finding his voice? He is generally a very high energy kid

Not talking

Is anyone else’s little one not talking or really babbling either? He will say dada alot 😂 but the rest is alot of uhh, ehh, ahh noises rather than babbling. He used to babble but has stopped recently and now it’s just those noises which sound more whingey rather than talking! Trying not to worry/goggle but it’s hard as others seem to be saying lots of proper words 😓 we read alot of books, sing etc so not sure what else I can do it encourage it.

7 week old grunter!

My 7 week old son is a grunts all day long! He seems so uncomfortable. I know it’s probably gas, but he’s like that even before feeding. He seems content only maybe 10% of the time he’s awake 😩, I feel bad. No fever, he’s gaining weight just fine. Anyone else’s baby like this? Do they grow out of it? Any advice ?

Stimming?!

My little boy has been doing something that me and my partner think is stimming but unsure. Whenever he is excited or happy in the slightest which is ALL THE TIME, he spins his hands rapidly, holds his breath with mouth open and tenses his legs all at the same time. It looks like he genuinely has no control of it and sometimes goes on so long he looks uncomfortable. He even does it when he see a bird so it’s constant. It started when he was 6 months and Iv mentioned it to the health visitor and showed them videos but I’m always told it’s just part of his personality as he shows no other signs of autism or anything like that. Has anyone experienced anything like this with their little ones? Should I be concerned or speak to anyone in particular? I am awaiting another visit from the health visitor for his 18 month development check so will mention it again then.

Speech therapy ?

I have a 1 year old and I don’t know how to get him to talk he points and grunts and says no perfectly and dada but don’t know how to get more words in vocabulary .
Should I seek speech therapy?

Crawling

Girls is anyone else’s baby not crawling yet? Mine will be 11 months in a few weeks and he’s not even trying to crawl yet. Is this something to be concerned about?

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