Not sure where to post this, so I've put it here.
My baby is 7 months, and I don't know if her levels of activity are normal. When I go to baby group all of the other babies sit there on their mum's laps playing happily with a toy or quietly having a bottle. Mine sits there waving her arms around and squealing more or less the whole time. The other mum's love her because they can be sure of getting her to giggle hysterically with very little effort. When she is put on the floor in a sitting position she either bounces on her bottom waving her arms or is currently frantically trying to crawl. She wants to grab everything, all the time - 'oooh, phone! Oooh, paper! Oooh, laptop! Oooh, biscuit!' Anything that comes within reach is picked up, waved around and then thrown across the room.
Now a lot of people will be thinking 'all babies do that.' But mine manages to keep this up from 5am to 7pm with only 2 half hour to an hour naps in between. I try putting her down to play quietly, she just doesn't do quietly. The amount of energy she has is seemingly endless.
As I said, compared to the small number of other babies I know, she is absolutely over the top. But is she just the most hyper of a small group, or does she sound completely nutty to you?
BTW OH was hyperactive as a child. Apparently his mum would put him out in the garden where he would just run round screaming for hours at a time just to release pent up energy.
My baby is 7 months, and I don't know if her levels of activity are normal. When I go to baby group all of the other babies sit there on their mum's laps playing happily with a toy or quietly having a bottle. Mine sits there waving her arms around and squealing more or less the whole time. The other mum's love her because they can be sure of getting her to giggle hysterically with very little effort. When she is put on the floor in a sitting position she either bounces on her bottom waving her arms or is currently frantically trying to crawl. She wants to grab everything, all the time - 'oooh, phone! Oooh, paper! Oooh, laptop! Oooh, biscuit!' Anything that comes within reach is picked up, waved around and then thrown across the room.
Now a lot of people will be thinking 'all babies do that.' But mine manages to keep this up from 5am to 7pm with only 2 half hour to an hour naps in between. I try putting her down to play quietly, she just doesn't do quietly. The amount of energy she has is seemingly endless.
As I said, compared to the small number of other babies I know, she is absolutely over the top. But is she just the most hyper of a small group, or does she sound completely nutty to you?
BTW OH was hyperactive as a child. Apparently his mum would put him out in the garden where he would just run round screaming for hours at a time just to release pent up energy.
Mine two year old is very happy just sit down and listen to a book, very chilled, I can already tell my next one is totally different, already won't stop moving and not even here yet!
