Does anyone else’s baby do this?

I noticed in the past couple of weeks my son started shaking his arm at random times during the day. We started using musical shaker balls and he loves them, so I am not sure if it’s that or possible early signs of stimming?
He is VERY vocal, makes eye contact all the time, and not behind on his milestones. Just a little worrisome that it’s a repeating thing that came out of nowhere.
Does anyone else’s baby do this or other things like this??

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My baby does this! Sometimes he will be laying in his crib for a nap and just suddenly start aggressively flailing his arms similar to that but harder lol. I think its a perfectly normal developmental thing!

Mine does this to music, she’s just enjoying herself.

It is WAY too early to know if your child has autism. Please take a deep breath and enjoy your baby.

Mine does this but with both arms at the same time. We call it his happy hands 😅 he does it when he’s excited

Probably just waving. Absolutely developmentally normal

Bodily awareness. Moving their bodies and seeing what they do

It looks like he’s waving! My baby started randomly doing it a month or so ago cause I would always randomly wave at her so I guess she eventually learned lol. Her arm used to do the exact same thing when she was first learning how to wave, but it’s gotten better over time! He is just learning a new skill!!

My baby boy does this to wave🥰

All normal but I'm also glad our playmat is not the only one with empty drink bottles. Iykyk lol

we use any empty bottles and make sensory bottles out of them!! We just fill ours with things like rice and pasta and stuff so they either make noise or have things like pom poms floating in them!!

Thank you all sooo much for all your input!!! Definitely calmed my nerves down! I appreciate you all!

Yes ill mix stuff in ours also...so cheap and hes obsessed.

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I'm open to anything else to start teaching him to read and write. He's 3!

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Been together more than 10 years, but it's been a while since he even seemed remotely interested in me getting on my knees, or vice versa so to speak. I think it was once last year. Must be something I am doing wrong 🤔. Generally everything else in that department is great and we have two young kids with no extra support, so it's quite surprising we can't keep our hands off each other but may need to try new things. It's basically 2 positions each time with some foreplay.

I think Motherhood has made me more bitter than I realized…

This is such a ramble but I don’t know where else to put it all.

I’m four months in and I don’t really have hobbies right now. I don’t do anything for myself except maybe doomscrolling or listening to a podcast while I breastfeed my baby. I used to craft and have game nights with friends. Activities that usually are at least 2 hour stretches. Now if I have an hour free my mind immediately goes to baby, or doing something in the house for baby.

And I thought I didn’t mind. Like I knew postpartum could be very mentally consuming. But I think it’s altering how I view people around me and it’s prodding at my relationship with my husband.

He spends most of his time making food for us, looking after our dogs, playing with the baby, ect. But he still has time for his hobby. Spends maybe an hour a night on it. Even adapted to using a bot for shopping for his hobby after a certain incident where we had to have a heart to heart after he left me home alone with the baby for hours during a busy workday (I work from home) to shop for his hobby.

And yet there’s like this little green eyed monster in me that rages every time I know he’s running off to start up the bot. Even though I’m the reason he does it this way.

We took a family trip last weekend to see his best friend and their kids and let them meet the baby. He brought the laptop. He’s always brought a laptop on trips and it’s never been a problem to me before. But one night we both woke up while the baby was still asleep, and he wandered out of the room. I tried to fall back asleep but couldn’t. So I went to the kitchen to try having something warm to drink to settle me. And he was there at the table running the bot from his laptop. I flipped out at him. But there really wasn’t reason to. It’s not like I needed help with the baby and he was ignoring me. He wasn’t avoiding our friends. He was just awake and unable to sleep and found something to do with his time. Yet my snap reaction was “why the hell would you do this on a family trip?”

I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s the less complete sleep from baby’s middle of the night feed? My brain being just consumed by baby? Maybe I’m not as over that shopping incident as I thought? But I’m just so annoyed at his hobby right now. The green eyed monster thinks “you could be using that time differently” but realistically to do what exactly??? Stare at our baby in the dark???

I spent probably an hour apologizing to him after I snapped. And he’s of course hurt and frustrated because I said some very mean things in the moment.

I don’t want to be this jealous, angry person. But I also don’t know how to find time for myself in this right now outside of basic hygiene. It’s like I’ve forgotten how to be myself, even if just for an hour.

Maybe I need a therapist.

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