What is it about 10 months???

[heavenlyghost]

Some of you may recall my lengthy posts about PND and the terrible time I had after DS (now 5 years old). The first 6 months were awful and then I got 'into' motherhood a bit more and then suddenly at 10 months it all came together ... the 'bond' was finally there and he was fantastic.
I haven't had PND or anything bad with DD and I have enjoyed mostly all of the last 10 months with her ... but she turned 10 months last week and again we have gone to a different level.
She is just fab, bumshuffling, being cheeky, sort of talking (you know what I mean, no words but really making her wants and needs understood) ... Playing so sweetly with me and on her own, sleeping all night (for the last months she has been able to find her dummy in her cot ... bliss ), napping regularly during the day, loves particular toys (really into cuddly toys, I often find her sitting in DS's room amongst his collection of cuddly toys 'talking' to them ... cute as ...). When I say "Cuddle" she puts her head on my shoulder and says, "Aaaahhhh".
God, she is sooooo damned cute, I could just eat her ....
So, what is it about 10 months that makes a baby so adorable ... is it just my favourite baby age or do all babies take some leap at this time?
What is your favourite age or are you earth mother and love all stages equally??

Agree that 10 months is adorable. i think its partly because they start to show their own unique personality and you because you finally feel that you can interact with them instead of just care for them. Enjoy your time

10 months...ugh... mine was doing the bumshuffling, being cutely cheeky etc at six months... the horror he is now is bloody unbearable sometimes lol he's 9.5 months! What happened, where did the tantrums come from! I have to wrestle him to the changing mat, and then basically sit on him while he screams himself purple.... and if I take a 'toy' that's dangerous from him I never hear the end of it sniff! Not even going to mention trying to put him in clothes, pram, bath... cot! (You're not saying that, that, tantrums are just his personality are you? NOOOO!! lol)

I'm so glad you find your baby adorable enough to eat, I did... until last month and then it wore off sharpish! Ok, he still is the best little man in the universe, I think he's developed extra fast or something, somehow!

DTs are 10months tomorrow (oops today). So I am expecting them to sleep through the night and to be completely adorable. They do the babbling thing. Both are crawling incredibly fast. DT1 can stand when holding on to something and DT2 can stand unsupported. DT2 keeps giving me big cuddles and cooing. DT1 keeps patting my back. They give the most gorgeous grins when they see me. Hmmmmmmm.... had promised to swap them with Lockets. May have to change my mind. They are adorable, but I want SLEEP!!!!!!!!!! lol

Sorry fastasleep but tantrums do seem to be part of ds personality but then again paed says he is a most unusual child!

Oh, I love teeny-weeny newborn babies best of all. That freshly minted look and feel and smell! Though my own babies have been adorable whatever their age, of course - I even love the teenagers! It's just other people's babies who start 'going off' at 10mths when they can sit up and are mobile.

My baby's still adorable as anything... better than all yours put together I bet, even with the tantrums :o

I'm loving my 10 month old too despite him not being the best of sleepers, but where on earth are we going to put the Christmas tree this year?!

MistletAeroandWine ... hmm, xmas tree, that is a problem isn't it? I hadn't thought of that!
Fastasleep ... I beg to differ my baby is the beautifullest, wonderfullest baby in the planet
But I do know what you mean about the nappy changing etc ... Luckily DD has not discovered 'tanties' as they call them in NZ but she does kick up a stink if you take something away from her ...
I don't know, I think it must be something chemical in my brain that makes me go all funny and gooey with my babies at 10 months. I could almost have another one ...
But not quite

I think you might have hit the nail on the head there heavenlyghost...I sometimes wonder whether they become simultaneously adorable and assertive at 10 months precisely to programme you into longing to have another. Two years approx is a VERY popular age gap for siblings even if you and I didn't quite manage it for various reasons...
Glad to hear your little cherub is sleeping through. Mine denies all knowledge of this concept, and shouts Weh! MUM! at the top of her voice if not immediately retrieved from her cot :(

I can't really remember ds being 10 months (shocking, eh?) but I really like other people's children when they are toddlers and upwards - IMO they just get more and more interesting and entertaining once they can talk and play and imagine things. I really, really like ds now, at three. He's sooo sweet.

OMG I think I'm an earth mother - once past the first hellish five months, I drool adoringly at every stage.

I find myself thinking that every stage is the best one yet. DD is 23 months and is wonderful. We have little conversations and her memory is now at the stage where we can talk about things that happened even a while ago. She said 'I love you, daddy' for the first time last week. AAW!

Yeah, mine is 10 months. She has just learnt to give things to people and likes to do it all day, everyday.

Makes it easy to take anything off her she shouldn't be playing with - such as Daddies blow-torch - jus jokin - As we just say 'Thank you' and she gives it too us.

Also toys very easy as she doesn't care for posh shiny toys just wants to remove everything from the cupboards - alright by me.