Hi,
Does anyone else have/had a very active baby? My LO is just shy of 5 months and has always been very active. His legs and arms are in the constant move. It’s like he has some extra energy levels.
Apart from the first days in hospital he hated being swaddled. He always needed his arms out. He hates his Moses basket because again there were no room for his arms to stretch. He never liked any sleeping bag because it restricted his legs and it would end up in crying.
When he is in his pushchair he’s constantly lifting his legs up, kicking off the cover or any blanket,his little fingers always holding the edge of the pushchair cover.
There is no way I can put him on the bed and lay next to him, cuddle, have a chat - his arms are always in the move, his wriggling everywhere and I’m risking getting punched in the face.
When his on his play mat on the floor,he’s grabbing the toys and yanking then with such a force sometimes I think he will just break everything one day. And we always have to put dou Nappy changes are another thing - he liked to smash his legs and heels so hard against the changing mat that you can hear it from the other room. Even when we hold him upright over the shoulder which is his favourite position the one arm almost never stops moving.
Generally he’s quite happy baby, he’s not crying much unless it’s emergency, he’s whining like every other baby but apart from that he’s fine.
He doesn’t seem to be on any kind of discomfort or pain just active. Too active. Every day me and my partner tell him “Can you just calm down a little bit”. Obviously that doesn’t help much for a 5 month old it’s more for our sanity.
Every day I’m hoping that he will get older and it he will calm down a bit because it’s so exhausting, it’s like he’s still only when sleeping.
Does anyone have a similar experience and can assure me “this too shall pass”. I’m really dreading the time when he’s gonna start crawling and moving around.