5 month old complaining

[EssexMamisoa]

My 5 month dc has started complaining all day long. It’s driving me bonkers.

Anyone else experienced this?

As in grumpy

Is your DC teething maybe?

What do you mean by complaining?? Teething, bored, wants stimulating?

Yes. It's normal.
If they just sat around contentedly, there'd be no learning or development or ambition.

Their little 5 month-old brain is ready for new things, but their body isn't yet. That's gotta be frustrating!

Won't be long before they get to try tasting food. That new dimension will give them something interesting to do. Then there's sitting up, looking around..... more cheerful times ahead 😆

A baby grizzling, being unsettled, whinging, unhappy or whatever all tells you that something is preventing them from being content, whether that's boredom, feeling unnoticed (lonely), sore teeth or whatever.
You just need to help them through it as best you can, the more you can do that the better it will be for you both.
Distraction, pain relief, change of scene, New activity... Try different things and see what helps.

Teething can be a nightmare my ds is teething and oh good lord it's bad but nothing a cuddle and some pain relief cant help good luck

Gosh, poor baby, there’s obviously something bothering them if they aren’t content

I more mean complaining if she drops a toy, can’t reach the cat, that sort of thing. I think frustration. I take her out each day to a baby class or a new place to look at (yesterday we walked round the library for example) but she seems to just want constant stimulation. Any other suggestions to keep her entertained welcome!!

This is a nightmare age, they want to be into everything but don’t have the skills just yet.

Dd spent a huge amount of time strapped to me in a baby carrier whilst I basically jogged around the house (if I stood still for a second she would scream!) and went on walks. I was fit as anything by the time she was 1 😂

It gets better once they’ve learnt how to crawl I found.

Haha ok at least it’s not just us! I am going to take her to the garden centre today and we can have a walk and talk and look at the (hopefully colourful) flowers together 🤣

Laughing at you jogging round the house!

I could have written your post... in fact I almost did! I created a post a few days ago about my 5.5 month old and received some super helpful replies. Sorry I don't know how to link to it.

Just remember you're doing a great job and it's nothing you're doing wrong. This is a tricky age and they are frustrated. Just get through it as best you can with distraction distraction distraction!

Defo a tricky age my ds has just started to roll over but not worked out how to get back over