I am the mother of a 7month old pocket rocket who can walk and climb stairs. I am exhausted.

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Anyone else? Fancy a chat about not sleeping/bottles/purees/walking all at the same time?

My DD2 is much the same; she walked unaided at 9 months, and was unhealthily obsessed with the stairs before she could even walk... if a stairgate were to be left open even momentarily she would seize her opportunity & make a bolt for it. Now she's almost 18mo, and the stress continues! The walking was never a problem, for me the real issue has been the climbing/dare-devil antics. She does copy her older brother & sister, obviously, but much of it seems to be just personality. At about 11mo, she climbed onto the coffee table & launched herself off it onto the sofa. Cue moving away of coffee table. She then managed to shunt coffee table back to original position & continue her game. Cue complete removal of coffee table from room. She then moved her little chair to back of sofa, ascended to the top & practiced tumble turns onto sofa, then leaps to floor. Cue removal of little chair. The highchair followed when she contrived, Houdini-like, to wriggle out of the safety straps & climb out onto the tabletop. And so on. The playground is a good setting for her, but I can't take my eyes off her for an instant as she'll seek out dangerous & overly ambitious equipment to climb & thus needs constant supervision. On a recent occasion, she climbed to the top of a slide, stood up at the top and waved her arms about in the air before sitting and sliding down. Poor DD1 (4yo), who is a cautious, risk-averse child, just ends up following DD2 & me around.

To the mums of the other pocket rockets - sorry to start a thread and not come back but I think we are in throes of the 7/8 month sleep regression and it's not been pretty! His daytime nap has dwindled to around 1 hour - gaaah!

We've gone down to one 30/45min nap a day now. But touch wood my DD seems to be sleeping better at night. I hope it gets better for you.

My DD has learnt to clap and crawl today :) so I'm very proud! Although it's not the crawling that makes things hard - it's crawling to get things then pulling herself up everywhere and bumping down a milliontimes a day!!

I'm so glad to have found this thread, my DD has been rolling since 4 weeks, though has only managed to roll from her tummy to her back a couple of times, she is 4 months old tomorrow and has teeth already (teethers seem to be too big for her to clutch properly).
Anyway she's spent all day today trying to crawl then getting upset when she cant, she can get her bum up and shuffle but her arms don't seem to be strong enough yet.How long do you think before she manages? ,I really have to get stair gates up.
I just want my cuddly tiny baby back this is all too soon. My friends babies of her age just lie there and sleep all day, and I feel like I''m showing off if I talk about it in real life.
I'm also not getting much sleep as she keeps rolling over in her cot to her tummy, then getting upset when she can't get back, I get so scared she'll suffocate but find putting the breathing monitor on helps a bit

Daisy I wish I could remember how long til proper crawling - but the last two months or so have been a blur... Newbaby - 45 mins! Oh lord that is tough. Lovely on the clapping though

I have had a day of really not coping. DH just home and I handed DS to him and locked myself in the bathroom for a good cry. He was up at 5.30am and by 7.30am we were in a shopping centre (too hot for outdoors here atm, sadly!) for a good walk in his pushchair. 9.30am home and he was awake for another two hours - screaming/shrieking with frustration when he lost interest in whatever he was doing - about every five minutes or so. He did have a good nap (2hrs) then another 3 hours of trying desperately to entertain him before meeting friends at soft play where he charged round like a luncatic for an hour. We went for coffee after but he will not sit in his pushchair or a highchair for even the shortest time (ok in pushchair if moving, not if still - starts whinging/shrieking). Home again for more of the same (will not even sit for milk now - I have to feed him as he cruises the sofa) and I am utterly drained and exhausted. I love him so desperately but I feel very alone with the way he is (like you Daisy all my friends have babies of normal energy levels and they always talk about me/him sympathetically which in turn angers me and makes me more miserable!).

He always seems hungry but I can't get him to sit still long enough to eat properly. At the end of my tether today :(