To think my 3 month old is fucking with me?

[ProudBadMum]

Just a few things really that make me think she's not the helpless baby she makes out...

The whole sleeping through from 10pm til 8am, has a bottle and back to sleep til 11 when it's her dads turn for night feeds.

Yet doesn't settle til around midnight and wakes twice before 6 for a bottle and an hours play for me.

Cries due to teething for hours and is just unhappy yet lights up and acts the angel when her dad comes home or anyone else appears tbh.

Acts like I'm murdering her when it's bath time but giggles and smiles when her dad does it.

I'm also sure she smirks at me like she knows she's playing me.

The worst thing though is she looks like him. I gave birth to his head on a baby. I grew her and she looks like him. I feel conned

It's slightly lighthearted...

Do your babies fuck with you?

My 4 week old is fucking with me. It's how it goes. They practise their skill in recalling you and getting you to do stuff for them because that's how they survive. With a secondary carer (working parent) there is less need to dominate

Helpless! Hah!

They are evil aliens from Planet Baby.

When DS was tiny, he seemed to scream about 90% of the time when we were at home, just the two of us. But take him out, and he was a different child. One of my NCT friend commented that DS was the only baby she knew who never cried!

Yes. DH is convinced looking after our 3 year old and two month old is really easy because on the scarce occasions he's had to look after both of them on his own, he's had ALL THE LUCK.

When I moanto him about how shit it can be at home with both of them he's all

They're all bastards.

Huh wait until she's a stroppy teenage mare with you and daddies girl with him.

She's THREE MONTHS OLD FFS! Know she doesn't play you at all as she won't have the cognitive ability to do that.

However all babies have a natural ability to sense/feel hostility.

Take a chill pill and get support if you feel you need it. Perhaps a baby course to help you gain understanding into what babies need.

Mines 19 months and clingy - lies on me, sots on me, plays one handed so he cab hold my hand at the same time.
Daddy walks in and its not only big smiles, oh Daddy you're home he's also suddenly so big and independent and totally hasn't been my shadow for right hours!! No Daddy, I don't know why momma did no housework!!

Why does everything on Mumsnet need a light hearted disclaimer, ffs. There's some humourless people around!

The op is obviously joking. No one thinks a 3months old plays games.

squarepeg can I suggest a sense of humour course for you? The op even mentions that this is lighthearted because people can't be relied upon to discern that for themselves.

I'd do the baby course but she would pass it with flying colours....

She's sneaky like that

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Because of posters like square.

SquarePegRoundHole: My 4 week old is definitely, definitely fucking with me. I also have a natural ability to sense hostility.

square really think you need to read the thread! It's lighthearted for goodness sake

Yes my DS does this!!

Wakes at 7am when DP is out the door early for work and I get up with him but sleeps until half 8 or 9 when DP works from home and gets up with him in the morning!! Also happy as Larry smiling and laughing when DP is home or as soon as he gets home from work after having a 2 hour meltdown for no reason...I'm sure DP thinks I'm lying sometimes 😂

My 7 month old monster Angel is the devil incarnate for me recently, with anyone else is the perfect baby. Sleeps well for them, eats properly and drinks full bottles and regularly makes out I'm a liar when I tell people he went do something that he immediately does!

As soon as Dp gets home he'll smile and giggle away like the last hour screaming was just a fun game with mummy. I go back to work in 5 weeks so I reckon I might as well just run with it as I'll miss him when I'm at work!

This demon makes me out to be a liar as well. I have 6 months til I go back. I think I will skip there

Haha even though I hate my workplace I think I'll be skipping into that office on the day I go back. I love him but by God is he difficult now he's older, I want my newborn back who just stayed where I put him and slept all the time

She wiggles so much and ends up in strange positions no matter where I put her

Oh and don't forget any time you are talking moaning about something to a dr, nurse, dietician, osteopath or health visitor the will be on absolute best behaviour making you out to be a crazy paranoid mother.

My 9 month old is at least consistent in his wrigglyness, he's like it for everyone...even the HV was a bit surprised at his sheer bouncyness and it took both of us to get his top back on after weighing him.

He is a little angel for grandad though because grandad introduced him to biscuits

sat with her dad for an hour or so after her feed. He passes her to me and she throws up on me and smiles.

She knows what she is doing, people can't use her age as an excuse

My DTs are 16 months old. Their dad gets a round of applause from them every time he gets home from work.