Jonah baby turned seven months this week. Seven months! How has this happened? I still feel like time should be passing half as quickly as it does. But alas, he’s growing up. And it’s kind of ticking him off!
You see, although my other kids waited until the ripe old age of eight months or so to crawl, Jonah wants to crawl NOW. (Like how I put my Pilates mats on our hardwood floor to aid him in his ambitions? Also, please note crap under coffee table!) And he is so close. Every day I think, “It will be today.” He can move around a lot and he’s getting pretty fast, but he can’t quite crawl and do it exactly how he wants to yet. And it’s making him MAD and cranky and generally discontent. He also doesn’t like it when I get in his face and take away whatever thing he’s reached that he shouldn’t have that his negligent siblings have left on the floor…oh, the baby proofing is giving me a serious headache!
Jonah-Jo is no longer content to be contained in his swing or exersaucer, he wants to be on the floor trying to get his crawl on at all times. But since that often involves him fussing through the process, I’m ready for this milestone to be checked off the list! Even if it does mean me scrambling after him more and more, I’m ok with it, if it means him fussing less and less.
I’d also be ok with hiring a nanny to supervise this milestone, but …I guess I’m just gonna hafta power through it.
And also, we’re starting Ferber again tonight so that this kid might actually SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT! His sleeping has taken a real dive since this mobility thing started, and Bleary-Eyed Mommy is much less tolerant of Angry Baby than Well-Rested Mommy is.
Wow, that just gave me a great idea for a brand of dolls.
So, what milestones made your baby the most frustrated? (Not to mention you!)
We are in the “I won’t stay in any swaddlers” but “I can’t sleep without my arms swaddled” phase. And I’m so exhausted I can barely stand. I was spoiled with my first, she slept completely through the night from 4 months and is still doing so 3 years later. This one hasn’t gotten the “sleeping through the night is a good thing” memo yet.
Plus my kids love to “teeth” without their teeth ever coming in. My daughter teethed from 4 months until her first two came in SEVEN MONTHS LATER. This one has been just as drooly, fussy, chewy, etc for almost 3 months now and those damn things will not poke through. At least Hylands teething tablets are back on the market and I got some in the mail yesterday.
(You may have to fine me for excessive use of quotation marks! Sorry. I blame severe lack of sleep.)
With nealy 20 kids, Mrs. Duggar has a new phase every day! She has no sympathy for you at all!
As to our phases, Shelby slept through the night at three weeks, that’s what you get with a baby that weighs 9 lbs 5 ozs at birth. Donovan, not so much. His phase was teeth…yikes!
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My 9-month-old learned how to crawl a couple of weeks ago, and it make him mad, too! I couldn’t really figure out why he was fussing so much. But I think you’re right; he just wanted to learn this crawling thing right and couldn’t really master it right away. Now he is getting around better and seems happier…hope things get more smooth for you once Jonah gets the hang of it!