Standing up and angry

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So, from being totally stationary at almost 12 months, DD has been busy crawling for a couple of months and has now worked out how to pull herself up and consider cruising.

However, this new found skill seems accompanied by continual frustration. Its on and off, but she's very irritated in the pushchair. This is a total change for her.

She may be coming down with something (she usually is) but has anyone found spells of increased tension and irritability during the development of new physical skills like these?

MY DS was wxactly like that we would 2 or 3 weeks of frustration before he added a new skill.It was like he knew what he wanted to do but couldn't, then he would be doing that new skill like a expert. Almost like he was planning it all in his head first. He was still like that when he was 7 or 8.He would be cranky for a couple of weeks then his vocabulary would sudden expand.
Daughter developed on a more gradually basis and didn't seem to have the same frustrations

DS does this - the grumps just after a developmental burst. Everyone else I know seems to get them before, which also happens with DS, but they don't just stop the moment a milestone is reached. This is also normally accompanied with a compulsion to practice the new skill so as in your case when it came to standing up we went through a similar phase of grumps in the pushchair, the highchair and even standing in his sleep - all passed in a couple of weeks and he's now happy again in the pushchair, so I can assure you it does pass!

yes, dd is like this. she turned one year last week and is just thinking about walking. she'll stand stationary in the middle of the room, arms above her head going GGGGGRRRRRRR then jump in the air about an inch, then sit down, stand up and do it again. and again. and again. she then has a long sit down and cries a bit then comes to me for a cuddle. poor thing can't seem to figure it out. today she actually stood on one leg for about a minute going GGGGRRRRRRR. then sat down again. bless em!

Absolutely. dd1 was more frustrated and tetchy around each developmental milestone (or just unsettled), but the bit between pulling up and actually walking seemed to be the worst. I wondered if she actually needed all that frustration to counterbalance the fear of letting go and launching herself on her own two feet...

Someone told me their brains are full of madly firing synapses as new pathways are laid down, every time they learn a major new skill: made sense, but didnt' help much!

The day she actually walked unaided, she changed into the sunniest baby on the planet, and the proudest

Its the pits till then though, you have my sympathy!

This all sounds very much like she has been. She's gone from just about propping against a stair to standing up against a rail with just one finger holding in just a week or so. Sounds reasonable that this sort of rapid development will have made her tense up a bit.