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Struggling with my 11 month old

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PurpleThistles84 · 11/06/2020 10:53

I have posted before about my DS, he is a lovely, adorable 11 month old, a year old in two weeks. He is my fifth DC, his siblings are all much much older. We all love him so much.

He has been referred to a paediatrician as he isn’t hitting his milestones in terms of movement. He doesn’t roll onto his stomach when on his back, he will roll off his stomach into his back because he hates tummy time. He can now sit unaided but obviously no attempts at crawling etc.

It seems like there have been never ending minor issues with him. From his difficult birth, reflux, tongue tie, hip worries and now his development. He currently has a nasty stye on his upper eyelid and just as we are getting that to heal, is developing one on his lower eyelid. On antibiotic eye drops and oral antibiotics.

I just feel like a bad mum all the time. He is so tetchy just now that the only thing that will keep him calm is watching baby Einstein videos on tv. I do anything to try to help him with rolling etc and he has what I can only describe as tantrums already.

He currently sleeps in his cot with a grobag and a sheet tucked over the top with his arms underneath. I did this with all of mine whilst the Moro reflex was still a thing and by six months they could pull their arms out and suck on a comforter to self soothe. DS5 still hasn’t pulled his arms out and if I try leaving them out he gets totally hysterical.

I don’t think I am parenting him any different to my older four but it was such a long time ago, I can’t remember. His older brother is autistic but ds4 was always a really happy baby that hit his milestones.

Just finding it really hard and worried his delays are my fault.

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FATEdestiny · 11/06/2020 11:02

I don't think you're patenting him differently. In terms of sleep, all mine liked that tightly tucked in feeling and it had no effect on their physical development.

Tummy time is a necessary unpleasantness really. Many babies don't like it but it's important to allow them to learn to roll and crawl. Saying that my eldest never crawled at all. She went from sitting to standing to cruising to walking.

PurpleThistles84 · 11/06/2020 11:07

I literally can’t get him to stay on his tummy, if I put him onto it, he immediately rolls onto his back and we end up in this battle of me rolling him back to his tummy and him rolling back to his back. He has always detested tummy time no matter how fun I’ve tried to make it and various ways of having it.

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Yorkiee · 11/06/2020 21:44

My LO hated tummy till. Got lots of toys and put her on playmat and left her to it. Trying to grab the toys she learnt to roll over.

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