My little guy is at such a fun stage right now, but there are some things that he does that are not so fun. I have a little secret. My baby yells at me! It sounds funny to say it, but it is the best way to describe what he does to let me know he is not happy.
Gone are the days when he had a little sweet newborn cry. With a full house with three kids, he has to make sure he gets mama’s attention. I guess that means that sometimes he needs to step it up a notch. I joke about it with my husband when he comes home, because sometimes, I do feel like I was yelled at all day.
I have found the solution to this yelling problem. It is simple. Pick him up. That’s it. But, as most moms out there know, you can’t hold your baby all day long. Especially when he is a big almost 10 month old. I think this issue has come about because he just wants to see what’s going on at my level, or Daddy’s. Because, as soon as he is picked up, he is super happy. Not a care in the world. Or, maybe the problem is coming from the fact that he wants to move around faster, and wants to just be upright. My baby spends a lot of time on the floor crawling around these days now that he is mobile, but since he hasn’t mastered the art of crawling (we are still in the army crawl stage) and he definitely hasn’t figured out walking, it can lead to a lot of frustration.
When a baby is at this stage of crawling, and wanting to walk, it can be a frustrating time period until they figure out how to get moving on those feet of theirs. My older kids have taken to army crawling with him, which he loves. I also put him in his high chair often with some toys in the same room where I might be walking around doing something. At least this way, he feels like he is on my level. But, today, when he was “yelling” at me, I simply stopped what I was doing, grabbed a baby book, and we looked at it together. This small moment of togetherness pacified him, and afterwards, he was happy for another stretch. Because, most of the time, all your baby wants is a little individual attention from the person he love most. You!
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