6 month old keeps slapping

Just wondering if this is some developmental thing. My baby really likes to slap everything at the moment. It started out with my hand when I was lying next to her. I think she quite enjoyed the sound it made. But now she'll slap my face, eyes and throat several times when I'm holding her and she's strong so it does hurt a bit. Plus, it makes holding her a little less safe.

Is this a normal development thing that will hopefully soon turn into her clapping her hands? Or is this something abnormal? I've not heard anyone mention it before

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Is it just on skin or is it with toys too? My one year old has recently started banging/slapping people and items/toys (he’s been quite slow on development) but it’s completely normal

@Jayde oh just everything within her reach, toys faces, my belly 🤣

It’s completely normal my now 2 year old (I had two boys within 13 months of each other) still does it as we made it into a game, we taught him gently and ow so now if he hits me too hard we say no more xx

@Jayde aww that's lovely. Might try the same x

Yeah my girl has started doing it too. It is completely developmentally normal (it’s actually on medical milestone checkers as we had to do 1 recently) when she hits my face I will take her hand and say ouch you hurt mummy. Obviously she doesn’t understand yet but just have to keep doing it. I do encourage her to do it on other surfaces though because it’s good for them to learn

@Lauryn oh okay, that's great to know! Thanks for sharing! Unfortunately it seems to make me laugh still because it always takes me by surprise. Which probably encourages her even more 🤣 will need to work on my response

I’m the same 😂

my 2 year old is the same still! they really think it’s the funniest thing when we’re in pain 😂 2 year old hands compared to 6 month old hands slapping you is a difference I’ve noticed lol

@Amanda oh I bet! 🤣

It's normal my baby was doing that, now she bites everything as she is teething 😅🦷

@Jill oh same, haha. She especially loves biting my face, cheek and chin. Again, it makes me laugh, which is probably not the best response, but it's equally insanely cute and utterly terrifying

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