Excessive hand twisting and flapping at 13 months (video). Need Advice.

[vgahdmi123]

Hi all,
I opened topic few days ago but since I got only 1 response I am adding video know to show my concerns better in a hope I will get more advice's.

For the past 5 days my 13 months old boy started twisting his hands, and flapping. Each day he is doing it more and more, he can stop for a few hours but then start doing it, usually when we carry him, but he can do it while eating with food in hands, and also by playing.

Beside that he really is on track on all of 12 months milestone with smiling, pointing, making eye contact, waving, babbling, walking etc.

However, I am concerned because I read that even all is going well, things in neurological spectrum changes can suddenly come in a way of regression. Now it is a weekend, but I will probably contact Pediatrician office tomorrow.

Until that, please watch this 7 second video and let me know is this concerning for 13 month old baby and how is experience of you who are having kids? Beside this recorded on video he is often moving his hand joint in a way like he wants to rev the motorbike engine, front to back, etc.
Thanks a lot

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n4Rrj3cPlmM

Bumping for you. Mine are adults now, but in your case, I would do as you suggest and get advice from the pediatrician.

It's very unusual in boys but you could look at Rett Syndrome to see if the symptoms sound familiar.

Children of this age do all kinds of different things with their hands including what's shown in the video. If your concern is seizures or something else representing a suddenly abnormal brain state, I would say you haven't described or posted anything that rings alarms in that respect. If your concern is a neurodevelopmental disorder, ultimately that's a question that can only really be answered over a long period of seeing if development diverges from the expected path. But you haven't described anything like that so far.

As you are so specific about when this started, I wonder if anything else changed 5 days ago that might have triggered this? An illness? A new food or medication? Realise a new food may sound odd but DD had a very bad eye tic when she was younger that I hadn't linked to her eating gluten but on advice of a nutritionist, we stopped gluten and the tic resolved completely in days. We stayed gluten free for around 5 years and then reintroduced some gluten but not excessive amounts and it didn't return. The complexity of the link between the gut and brain is still just being discovered so maybe worth looking at if you don't find another cause.

omg, i am scared even more now :/ . i see it is genetic and cannot say anything except we did really high level pre-natal on mutliple genetic disorders and all came back fine

nothing unusal except changing the environment, we came to vacation

Maybe he just likes doing it. I watched the video and thought he was behaving like a normal child.

I did too. I thought he was frustrated at being carried. I would have thought vacation would impact that age.

See a Dr if you're worried though.

The movements in the video don't concern me at all and look like the movements of babies that age, although I understand your concerns if it's happening frequently.

Change of environment could create stress, worsen sleep, cause allergic reaction to environmental factors etc so it seems a pretty big coincidence the behaviour started in this new location. I wouldn’t worry too much for now and see if it normalises when you return home. Also the movements don’t look unusual for a child this age.