To think I can’t walk around the living room with babh one more time!

[RubyPurple]

My baby just wants me to hold him and walk around with him all day long. I put him in a sling when I can but god forbid I ever sit down. I’ve been walking around my tiny living room in circles for the last two hours and it’s driving me crazy. These days it’s too hot to wear him in a sling outside and if it’s not too hot it’s raining. He won’t take movement from a bouncer, swing, moving pushchair. He just wants to be on my shoulder all the time. My arms are killing me!!

Oh no, I remember this too - I literally wore the landing carpet out! 2-3 hrs every evening and it was exhausting, I feel your pain OP.

It does eventually stop naturally. I remember friends telling me not to rock my DS in my arms as he’d get too used to it etc. but you have to go with what works. Have you tried putting baby on tummy over your lap and you can gently bounce whilst you sit down? Or a rocking chair worked for me. Good luck.

Isn’t yoga ball exhausting? Or is it less exhausting than walking. How did you hold them when you were bouncing?

He’s just got really tired now so laid him down across my lap and moved my legs up and and down!

They are used to movement and heart beat OP and your baby is still young, so yes, as I suggested, on your lap with the odd gentle bounce or on your chest so baby can hear your heart beat.

My baby was the same. Very surprised that I didn't eat her.

She calmed down at 4ish months.

Sitting on a yoga ball can be helpful but Id just sit down and let them cry. In arms, they're still being comforted, it's ok for them to cry you know.

Try an cranial Osteopath, I did with my dd she was like this and it helped no end she was like a different baby.

She also had silent reflux so might be worth ruling things like that out.

You need a babocush! www.babocush.com/

I have twins, so I had no choice but to put them down and let them cry - couldn't walk around with both of them! They soon get over it .

Sling. Get a kindle so you can read as you pace. Get a games console with wireless controllers so you can play standing up. I feel your pain!! It doesn’t last forever.

Dd was like this and it was completely bloody exhausting. I remember having flu and an ill 3 year old and still having to walk round and round and just doing it sobbing silently with exhaustion and desperation. She did stop though about 4 months and then slept a solid 12+ hours so it was worth it!

I can manage this until 4 months but if it’s going to go onto 9 months I don’t know how I will manage!!! When did it end for the rest of you?

You poor thing! My baby is 8 months now and was exactly the same. On top of that, he would only go to sleep on or next to me and we hardly had a daytime routine. It got much better when we started weaning at just over 5.5 months. At 12 weeks they are still so small. Ours didn't have a routine at all at that point.

I was exactly the same with DS last summer, honestly. MIL used to say oh just put him down he's tired! Er no he doesn't work like that. As you say- holding him on the sofa was no good either. Had to be walking.

My only memory of last summer is being sweaty and desperate.

If it helps, he is now scampering around with a big grin on his face and can't get away from me quickly enough- to get up the stairs, into the cupboard, out of the door..
It's a distant memory but I'll be honest it's made us waver about having another.

In answer to your question it stopped gradually- around 4 months he went on omeprazole for reflux and that helped hugely. Then a few months later he started at his childminder for a couple of hours a day and she got him to nap in a cot. Then when he could move around for himself he just got happier and happier.

Personally I find the yoga ball much easier and less tiring than pacing and swaying. Mainly because I can zone out and watch TV. Just hold baby in the cradle hold and gently bounce. Ds likes it when I hold his hand to my breast and to have his cheek pressed into the other side of my breast. I think the movement mixed with my heartbeat and breaths helps soothe him.

We moved house up the country when ds2 was 12 weeks old (never again!), the movers got there before us and they were asked (begged) to blow the ball up first so I could settle ds when we arrived. I even deflate it and take it away with us when we visit family. I honestly can't recommend it enough.

And honestly don't look too far into the future, take one day at a time, at 3 months the babe barely knows its been born. They change so quickly, and learn so quickly. In 48 hrs my child went from hating tummy time and lying on the mat like a squashed slug to holding his head up and looking around, two weeks later he rolled back to front, a month after that he sat up independently. With each stage there are pros and cons and frustrations and excitements. You will both get passed this phase and as he grows and learns it will become easier. Promise. Otherwise why would so many of us go back and do it all again multiple times?!

OP feel free to message me (we can swap numbers if you like) for company as I'm going through the exact same thing! Mine is 15 weeks and has terrible Silent reflux / cmpa. Also trying to establish a rough routine and just get through this stage best I can

Bless you all! My boy was medically fragile and had reflux and cmpa-he had to be held upright looking over my shoulder! He screamed for eight months straight then one day he just woke up happy. He at least would nap and sleep at night. He's now turning 19 in a week and it all feels like a distant memory

@RubyPurple how are things?