High-energy baby

My kids are driving me crazy today. We are all sick so maybe that is where this is coming from but one of my boys is just a whiner. Ugh! I put him down-he whines, I change his diaper-he whines, I dress him-he whines. The only time he is totally happy is when he is eating in his highchair or he is in my arms. Total Momma's boy!

The other boy is just high- energy. Always on the go!! He is impossible to diaper and screams when I put clothes on him. As I am getting him out of the tub and wrapping him in a towel, he is trying to roll over. He was born with wheels on his butt to go, go, go!! He is happy in the highchair and stroller so it is not a restraint issue but I just cant take the fighting at diaper changes and nighttime jammies--it it taking its toll on me. I thought it would lessen a bit, but I think it is getting worse. Anyone else dealing with this?? Any good suggestions from one pro- wrestler to another?

 

Rachel, I am so glad you posted this. I have been worrying that my James is the only wild baby around! I love him to bits of course but he is GO, GO, GO. I get a couple of tame minutes with him when he wakes from a nap (that's twice a day) and he's still a little groggy but other than that I feel like he just escaped from the local zoo or something!! He's mad about getting dressed and squirms away in the morning, he rolls away from diaper changes all day long, and getting him into his pajamas is a nightmare! It literally takes 2 people to bath him because he just can't stop moving. I think he takes after my brother, who is HIGH ENERGY and always has been. It's funny because in utero James was so mild, I swear he only moved once every couple of days (compared to Evan who was a major wiggler) and James was also a very calm, mild mannered newborn. But at 3 months something started to change...

I don't have too many tips except that James is fascinated with new surroundings - sometimes I literally take him down to a corner of the basement to put on his diaper and pajamas at bedtime. He's too interested in looking around to bother squirming.

 

I have one of those, she is now 3 1/2 and aaargh - I'm exhausted! My twins combined are easier to deal with than her! She cried for the 1st year every time she was in the car seat. Hated/hates the stroller, high chair, exersaucer - basically anything that confined her. She was sitting up alone by 6 months, crawling by 7 1/2 months, standing at 8 months, walking by 11 months and climbing onto my kitchen table by 12 months. She is still the same way - always on the go, always looking for something to climb on, ect. Last week she was playing nicely in a clothes basket, then I caught her jumping off of it ... on top of her bed! She is very smart, but very dramatic. She's a really neat child, but ohhhh I wish she would take a break once in a while! Let's just say I'm really enjoying my mellow babies!

 

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I have one of those, she is now 3 1/2 and aaargh - I'm exhausted! My twins combined are easier to deal with than her! She cried for the 1st year every time she was in the car seat. Hated/hates the stroller, high chair, exersaucer - basically anything that confined her. She was sitting up alone by 6 months, crawling by 7 1/2 months, standing at 8 months, walking by 11 months and climbing onto my kitchen table by 12 months. She is still the same way - always on the go, always looking for something to climb on, ect. Last week she was playing nicely in a clothes basket, then I caught her jumping off of it ... on top of her bed! She is very smart, but very dramatic. She's a really neat child, but ohhhh I wish she would take a break once in a while! Let's just say I'm really enjoying my mellow babies!


Oh it's nice to hear someone going through the toddler stage like me. My dd is just turning 3 and she was such a wonderful calm baby. I think she's making up for it. She even slept through the night at 6 weeks old. So happy. Now we call her the destructor. Unlike your little girl is neat...mine is not. I love her to pieces but I wish she would just stop. I'm yelling at her non stop or telling her to get in time out every other minute. My babies aren't quit mellow but definetly easier to deal with other than the sleeping issue. Maybe we'll look back on this soon and laugh...maybe.

 

Sounds very familiar... I have a pair of active/alert toddlers. When my boys were first born, the nurses kept commenting that they had never seen such awake and alert newborns. The cleaning lady insisted that they were tracking her with their eyes even though they weren't supposed to be able to do that yet (she had very dark skin and was walking in front of a stark white wall and I believe she was right). They weren't fussy babies at all and they slept well early on. They hated swaddling so we quit at 1 week of age and they would move around a great deal with their wriggling. Once they were rolling, there was no stopping them. They walked early and ran early and now they are skilled climbers/jumpers and do things daily that would scare most mommies :lol: I don't know what to tell you other than to childproof heavily and early. We haven't been to the ER yet but we've called poison control twice and Trent's had one mild concussion... and I watch them like a hawk. The only reason I get to visit TS at all is a laptop with wireless Internet.

 

My Lily is one of those as well. She is just five months now and starting to really try to crawl and sit. She flips flops around all of the time, on the ground, on the changing table, etc.... She is obsessed with sticking her feet in her mouth and all I can see when I bathe her is her little bum because she is so busy folding in half. She takes a million years to settle down for a nap and has only laid her head on our shoulders when being held a handful of times, ever. She jerks her head around at every little noise and reaches out to touch and feel every new texture or face. When I hold her by her hands to stand she actually walks and refuses to stand still. She will walk all the way across the carpet when held by her arms. I am a bit worried about what the future holds - She is such a sweet, smart little thing, I can already see her HUGE personality.

Amy

 

Oh I can totally relate!!! At this moment my high energy kiddo is bouncing like a crazy baby in the jumperoo! We put her in there several times a day to let her get out some energy (and wear her out before nap time ).

I have no advice... I'm already planning all the activities I will have to enroll her in when she gets older because she is exhausting and literally moving all waking hours.

Oh and as for diaper changes and putting clothes on, I've become a freakin stand up comedian to keep her entertained and prevent her from rolling away from me. I don't know why clicking my tongue, blowing raspberries, or singing 'the wheels on the bus' is so funny, but to Ana its the funniest thing ever!!! She is probably thinking "What a weirdo!" and laughing *at* me!

-Leighann

 

Boy am I glad that you are all right there with me. I was beginning to wonder about him, but now I just see that he is a late bloomer and it going to be a challenge to keep up with. Oh well, maybe I can lose some of those "twin pounds" chasing him around once he walks.

 

Right there with you!! My girls go back and forth with the energy thing. If it's not one it's the other. I always seem to have a rowdy child and a mellow one. And the rowdy one always wants to pick on the mellow one and they are just not in the mood!! As far as squirming during changing etc. I am SO there. And getting dressed???? I break out in full blown sweats every morning trying to get the girls dressed and ready for daycare. all before 7am!! Those darn sleeves on the long sleeve shirts!! What is it with them and my girls wanting to spread their hands open right when I'm trying to put them through the sleeve? I have to be so careful that I don't bend a little thumb or pinky finger in the process. And they act like HURRY UP MOM! There are things I gotta do!!! Of course this comes out like "WWWAAAAAAAA" My Nephew is 2 this month and is STILL fighting the diaper / getting dressed thing. OH BOY!!!

 

Jake is my high-energy(high maintenance!!!) baby! I sing to him when I am changing his clothes/diaper and it almost always gets his attention and gets him to stay semi-still. :wacko: