Frustration 23 week old baby

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My DS was born at 35+5 and he?s now 23 weeks (18 corrected).Despite being very jaundice he was fine.
The first months were hard. He was very colic, windy... But now things are much better. I think he?s doing well however I feel that sometimes he gets frustrated because he can?t articulate his movements well enough. If he sees something (such as toy, or book,etc) he shows how excited he is: he kicks his legs, smiles, even focus very hard on what his looking at , but then he doesn?t know how to grab it and gets very frustrated. I?ve been trying to ?teach? him how to hold things and once he gets the objects he immediately puts it into his mouth and you can see he?s really happy. But it?s heartbreaking to see that he wants to grabs things but doesn?t know how. As anyone experienced something like this with your DC?
Thank you

Hi

My little one is now 20 weeks old but only 9 corrected. He does seem to get very frustrated when he cannot do what he wants to do. I was told by another mum with a 29 weeker (now 4 years old) that she always thought it was because he had less stength than he thought he had. That's what I always think about mine, he has the desire of a 4 month old baby, and visually he has always been "agead" of his actual age- looking at things following things with his eyes etc while he was still 35 weeks, but his body is too little to co-ordinate what he can do and/or his arms and legs aren't strong enough while he is soooo tiny. It's most noticeable when he tries to roll - which he has down 3 times and twice back to front, once front to back, BUT as soon as he is in the bath and got the water to help hold his weight he's rolling all over the place, its as much as I can do to stop him swallowing large gulps of water when all of a sudden his wet body is on his stomach, not his back!

I figure he'll catch up soon enough but its very frustrating