My baby is 7 months old and he is getting really strong. Whenever I hold him it’s constant hair pulling, grabbing handfuls of neck and face skin. The hair pulling in particular is so painful, it’s getting to be where I have to put him down because I can feel myself getting tense and grinding my teeth, and I am worried I’m going to shout at him. It’s not just a few times a day, but constantly any time I hold him.
I wear my hair tied up tightly but he just grabs the baby hairs around my hairline and pulls handfuls of them out by the root. I tried covering my hairline with a hairband and he still manages to get his paws in there. Short of shaving my head I don’t know what I can do! Distracting him doesn’t work, and by the time I’ve caught hold and disentangled his hand the other hand has got hold of something!
it’s really stressing me out and getting to the point where I’m completely overstimulated and touched out and angry with him by the end of the day. Obviously he is too young to understand what he is doing and I’m sure this is normal, but I don’t want to dread picking him up anymore - any tips for coping with the pain and staying calm?