head bobbing 11 month old

morning moms, just wondering if anyone else’s baby does the same thing as I’m starting to get quite worried and drs aren’t much help.

My soon to be 11 month old has always done strange movements with his head and I have been to the drs with him about this back when he was 6 and 7 months old and both times got told it’s likely developmental and not to worry as he’s very forward with milestones. However he’s now doing a more aggressive head bob imagine a sneeze motion without the sneeze or a big ‘yes nod’ He’ll do one big one and then a few little ones and also puts his ear to shoulder (what’s he’s always done) I can’t ever catch these on video as they don’t last long and come on randomly.

Google worries me so I’m trying to stay away but I also don’t want to be naive if my baby needs help.

It seems to happen when my baby is teething really badly so I’m trying to figure out if it’s related and that could be a symptom, maybe ear ache?

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Mine does this, I noticed her doing it a lot at her baby class the other day. I think she gets quite shy, she often looks at people and looks away and smiles. But it might be teething too. She had about four plus teeth come through the top at once 😅

my son does the same, acts all cute and shy when In reality he’s a terror 🤣 I’m thinking teething aswell, noticed my boys canine and molar coming through 😭

I think she partly does it to hide but she also loves the attention 😂 I just noticed it was more exaggerated in the class. But she definitely been teething and just had some kind of virus too I think. Her first tooth didn’t come through until 8 months and now they all seem to be popping through 😅

oh bless her! teething must be so tough for them😢 we’ve got 9 teeth atm first 2 came through together at 5 months and been a long journey since then lol x

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