Hi everyone - thanks for reading. I’m at my witts end so I’d really appreciate any advice or hearing similar experiences.
My lb has whinged/cried in every class I have taken him too. When he was 4ish months old I took him to sensory classes but it was mostly me consoling him the whole way through, so after a few of those classes, I tried a quieter small sensory class with five other babies and he still whinged a lot of the way through. I figured he might have been too young so I waited a couple months and tried again. He’s now 8 months old and I took him to a jiggly wrigglers this morning and again, he just got upset. I’m really struggling to find a pattern of what sets him off, I think today it could have been the loud music cause he seemed okay until then.
I couldn’t stop crying when I got home cause I felt so bad about putting him through the class and I’m also just so upset that I’m not getting the same experience as all the other mums. They all just sit there with their super chilled babies and have a great time and I’ve never had that. It’s never been chilled with my lb. He had relentless colic for the first 3-4 months of his life thanks to a tongue tie and tummy troubles and is generally miserable unless I’m walking him around in a pram or just generally out and about. When he’s at home, he’s just frustrated that he can’t crawl yet. He does seem to like swimming but even then he cries at the pool noodle (of all things!) which the swimming teacher seems to want to use every single lesson 🙄
Is anyone else in the same boat? I don’t know whether to keep taking him to these classes or just stop going. It’s making me really worried about him starting nursery in a couple of months as that’s probably not going to be a quiet environment. I also don’t know what to do with my time anymore, I’m so bored of being at home and walking around the same shopping centre or zoo every single day. This is really starting to get to me because this wasn’t at all the experience I was hoping for when I pictured having a little one. I just want him to be happy 😭