Is this normal?

My daughter is 5 months old in a week and has started doing this jerky movement with her arm. Sometimes she really smacks herself in the face when doing it too, I just don’t want her to hurt herself
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Yes all normal, my son (now 17m) did this for a few months. I put it down to starting to practice coordinating his hand and arm movements. He used to do this with toys in his hand or his water bottle so started to favour the other hand when playing. It just self corrected.

That looks pretty normal to me! She is so cute. Just figuring out how to use her limbs ;)

Is normal. Nothing to worry about

Looks like she’s working on getting things to her mouth ready for weaning ☺️ try giving her a teether or a silicone spoon and see how she gets on ☺️

Normal!

She’s so cute. This is very normal, their hand coordination is ass at that age, bless her. Give her a teether or a plastic spoon, she’ll learn how to put things in her mouth!

My son will be 5 months in a couple of days and he started doing this exactly one week ago. I was a bit worried too at first but then I found out it’s normal x

Normal

Completely normal

Yep, normal (and cute!!)

@Megan she can use spoons, we’ve been testing her out with peanut butter, carrots and yogurt!

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