Does hearing about everyone else’s babies hitting milestone get you down?

[EastEndGal]

Does hearing about everyone else’s babies hitting milestone get you down? My DS is 8 months, he’s babbling random sounds and rolling about but no where near ready to be crawling, having a nightmare weaning as puree and BLW is just not happening. Yet I have mum friends with babies the same age or a month or 2 younger saying their child is crawling, saying mama or dada, taken to blw really well etc. Like I want to be happy for them and don’t expect them to stop talking about it but I just can’t give them the reaction they expect.

how have people managed this?

Competitive parenting starts really early, just let your little human do things at their own pace ~ your wee man will be away before you know it and before you know it, they are nearly grown up x

Comparison is the theft of joy OP. Keep telling yourself that. Be pleased about what your baby has achieved and know that they'll pick everything else up when their good and ready to!

Honestly, babies meeting milestones early isn't some marvelous holy grail. In fact, I can tell you from bitter experience of my child who crawled on their six month birthday, walked at ten months and was running everywhere before eleven months that it can be a right pain. When they are on the move so young you basically spend your whole time running round making sure they're not killing themselves as they have even less understanding than a baby who does it later on.

I was really jealous of the mums of perfectly normally developing babies who were doing things at a relaxed pace. Their babies stayed where they put them! I remember inviting fellow mums round for tea and cake and their babies sitting around happily on the floor whilst their mums chatted away. I was distracted for a moment, and then someone pointed out my 6.5 year old had zoomed over to the stairs (that we hadn't yet put a gate on) and was merrily crawling up them.

Honestly, enjoy the relaxed pace. In a few years noone will know who did what and when.

Yes I totally get this !! I don’t think I’ve walked away from one antenatal meet up and not felt deflated that my baby hasn’t hit the milestones as fast as everyone else’s have.

Logically I know they all hit at different rates but it’s just hard not to worry.