just wondering.
My daughter is five months. She's going to a childminder after christmas. I've always found her a very "intense" baby (when compared to her peers). She doesn't like being held (prefers to sit in a chair) and needs something to do/look at all the time. She has three naps a day (roughly one hour, then two half hour ones) but she cries each time she goes into the cot (she does eventually settle). At the moment, she doesn't particularly like strangers either, which I thought was a stage of development that came later.
She's not a baby who cries all the time; she just grumbles a lot when she gets bored and, unlike her peers, she doesn't sit smiling and gurgling.
I keep worrying that the childminder will phone me and ask me to come and pick her up because she's such hard work. She also looks after a couple of toddlers, so she can't give my daughter the level of attention she's used to (obviously) and I'm concerned that her crying will disrupt the toddlers' nap times (cots are in the same room).
Probably typical worries of a first time mum, but how on earth do you childminders cope with babies like mine?