Baby Milestones

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8 month old

Please!!! Someone tell me things will get better. My nearly 8month old is in the process of learning to crawl which is great...but he is so damn grizzly at the moment and has been the past few days. He is constantly wingeing (but not fully crying) and it is mentally and physically draining me. He plays with his toy...

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Webbed toes

Hi, I'm just wondering if anyone has had a child with webbed toes? If so what are the effects of having webbed toes, do they have to have an operation? Thanks

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Cat-like screeches!

Anyone else's baby make loud cat-like screeching noises over and over again? My 5 month old has started to. I'm worried she's trying to tell me she's in pain or if I should be worried there's anything else going on. She seems to just really like the noise, but it's happening for the majority of the day now.

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Phase

Someone please tell me this is a phase my daughter is so mean to me she will be 2 in June she Hits kicks throws things at ne and for no reason she will be sitting on my lap and just slap me or kick me she doesn't really talk I try to redirect her but this is a all day thing

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Can your 2YO..

Hello, I’m just wondering how your 2Yo is with colours, Numbers and letters?. I’ve just learnt my 2YO knows all of her colours, recognises 1-10 and knows all of her letters and can relate some to real words. This is not something I’ve encouraged (not that I don’t, she just doesn’t have the patience for me 😂). This…

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2 year old behaviour

Has anyone elses 2yr old turned into a complete butt head? 🤣 up until now my lg has been an angel but the last week or so shes been such hard work! Pushing boundaries to the max and when u tell her no she laughs in your face and carries on 🙄 How are others dealing with this?

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Walking

Anybody else’s baby walking? My daughter is 6.5 months old and walking. I’m shook considering my first 2 kids weren’t walking until 13 and 14 months. She had started crawling around 4.5 months.

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mobile baby

anyone else think their baby is developing so fast? she’s only 8 months old and is crawling and pulling herself up to stand. and says dada all day 😅

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Baby started to crawl with one foot up all of a sudden

My boy has been crawling on all 4s for around 3 months but as of yesterday and today he has adopted this one leg crawl. He keeps one leg down in a normal crawling position and his other leg he has his foot flat on the ground and pushes himself on his foot instead of his knee like he was doing does anyone know if thi...

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Shoes

My little girl is walking across a room independently now, and using our hand to support in the garden. I’ve tried two pairs of shoes now but she won’t put her feet on the floor when they’re on. I’ve tried playing with them and putting them on her bear, she tries to put them on but as soon as she has them on she’s c...

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Sucking hand/thumb?

My LO is 3 months old & has been really sucking his hand or thumb - is this something that should be encouraged? Or should i be getting a dummy for him? Also what could it mean??

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Hitting

How are people "telling off" and setting boundaries for their little ones. I say no, she laughs. I shout no, and she laughs even more. I explain "no we don't hit" and she carries on. I ignore it, and she hits harder... I'm at my wits end with it now, and I just don't want her doing it to other people or babies, and ...

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Bilingual children

My partners nephew is 2 years 3 months old and doesn't speak at all. His dad is English and his mum is romanian. His dad doesn't interact with his son much and his mum only speaks romanian to him even though they live in England. He doesn't seem to understand anyone either and he's always flapping his hands about an...

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Is this normal ?

My 19 month old started covering her ears or putting her fingers in her ears like she’s trying to block out noise .

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Kicking Legs

Hi, does anyone else's little one constantly kick their legs when sitting or lying ? He's not crawling yet.

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watching tv

my son has been watching tv like gracie’s corner and ms rachel and movies with us when we watch tv since he was a baby baby ( 8 months ) and i just want to make sure im not frying his brain too much and that he’s probably learning , i hear too much screen time can cause speech delay etc ? please help

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