Just an 'is this normal?' type post really, because it seems all the other people with similar age kids I know are experiencing something different...
I have a 10mo daughter - my husband and I work full time, looked after by my parents in the day until we have more stable accommodation to find childcare near.
She is very active - crawled really early, basically walking already, constantly wanting to climb everything obsessively. Blink and she is on top of/in something she shouldn't be, putting something she shouldn't be in her mouth (she is very obsessively oral as well) - and then if she pull her off/away she screams/arches/protests. You can distract her for a few seconds, but then she is back to whatever it is.
We have a playpen at both our and my parents - at mine we live in a tiny rented flat with a kitchenette, so impossible to fully childproof really. So very much always in playpen. My parents be contrast have loads of space and we have managed to do quite a bit of baby proofing.
But she just CONSTANTLY manages to foil whatever plans to keep her safe - you can't leave her in the plan pen because she has figured out how to jimmy the big screws off the top to escape/try to swallow. She doesn't like to be in the pen alone - so she will try to get out, only put up with it for a bit if you get in with her. I'm terrified to leave her in the cot because she tries to, and almost can, throw herself out headfirst. So no showering etc. - you can just about run quickly to the toilet and back, but I even worry about that.
I'm actually the least paranoid out of my parents and her dad - I'm like "Oh she'll be ok, she has to fall over" when about to bang her head on the wall/door/floor/corner-bumpered objects, but they freak out because she could crack her head on the tiles after climbing up the cupboard etc.
Again, she will get into that sort of situation within 3-5 seconds of being put down, every time.
She seems to have some vague awareness of drops etc. occasionally, but when she sees something across the room/an escape route she has noticed, she seems to get so excited she just flies in that direction with no care for anything.
I don't know if its that they/I are overly watching her, her nature is particularly adventurous/spiderman like, or this is just normal? Because people with similar age kids talk about them playing with a toy for 5 minutes, how you can start to leave them to amuse themselves a bit 'banging their head the other day' (instead of twice an hour...).
Is it me or them that is the weird one?