baby frightened of toy

[belindarose]

I know this isn't a big deal, but found it interesting and surprising and wondered if others had had the same issue? Bought my 5 mo DD a lovely toy from a charity shop yesterday. She was asleep, so I didn't test it out on her! Washed it when we got home, and put it on the floor with her and her other toys. She looked at it in horror and flung herself backwards to get away from it. Each time I gently showed it to her again, she did the same. I hadn't thrust it at her or anything, in any way that I can see would frighten her. It is a soft cube with different designs/ textures on each face. Nothing she hasn't really encountered before - a few beads, tags, scrunchy bits. Some of her other toys are much more disturbing (Baby Whoozit!!). I'll put it away for a few weeks and try again. Fortunately I only spent £1, not the huge amounts that MIL and stepmother like to spend!

Hmmm no advice really, other than what you're already planning.

But around 5/6 months they do apparently start becoming more aware of things and maybe more anxious.

My DD (coming up for 8 months) loved the ELC Stacking Cups that I bought her as a stocking filler. Literally in the last week, she has screamed if we stack them up, whereas she used to love them being stacked up so that she could knock them over. I'm assuming that at some point when she's at SILs house or with the CM, they may have fallen on her or made her jump and she can't stand it now.

She still loves playing with them but we can't stack them up. Strange isn't it?

DD did this with the Barnaby Button bouncy chair or whatever it's called. She didn't mind the chair but as soon as I put the arch on with the three (cute, I thought) bears hanging from it, she went ballistic. She was a touch younger than 5 months though as I remember.

Ha ha - no longer frightened as 10 month old cousin came over and liked the toy. DD decided, of course, that it was HER toy and she liked it very much! Didn't take long! Re: stacking cups - DD completely and utterly obsessed with the tiniest one of her stack (£1.49 - only Christmas present from me and DH as we knew she was getting so many others!). She'll roll across the room just to get to it and looks for it everywhere. Why??? The others don't interest her at all! Aren't babies funny?

Oh how funny rockbird - my DD is exactly the same. Loves the chair; hates the arch with the dangly bears. I think, though, it's because they are so close to her when the arch is on - way closer, I think, and more in her face, than similar things on other chairs I've seen. If she's anything like her mother (touch claustrophobic), I reckon she can't bear to have them so "up close and personal". Packed the arch away weeks ago. Will never be able to find it if we have a DC2...