My 10mnth old does not seem to know what he wants. I set him to play on the floor and he will crawl over to me sit down and cry with his arms out wanting to be picked up. As soon as I do he squirms to be set back down. When I try to he bends his back and locks his legs and screams so I can't get him to sit or lay down. I'm not sure what he wants! anyone else have this problem
I wonder if he wants you to get on the floor with him?? Just a thought.
Maybe he wants you to hold him and walk around the house. My little guys like to do that.
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Dear S., It sounds so normal. He loves being picked up and to be reassured you are there. Having that security, he then wants back down to explore. Good for you for giving him that comfort. You are empowering him to go out and discover the world.
HTH.
Jilly
It sounds very normal to me for the age. When my grandson is doing this he's tired and doesn't know what he wants or needs. He needs to sleep but he fights it. Sometimes they want us to spend hours just walking them around if they are at that stage where they will walk with our help. My grandson will NOT crawl. And yet he can zoom all over in the walker. He loves the walker. But he just about always cries when he's first put in there because he'd rather be carried around. It's a frustrating age because they are still feeling that we are everything to them. They can't do much of anything without us. And yet it's time for them to learn to play and self soothe and not to need so much pampering every minute. They've been around long enough that the house and laundry and other chores must be done. We can't sit and stare at them in awe anymore! We are more restless, wanting to get more done and so it's not just them in a between state. They are on the verge of becoming more independent and we are ready for that to happen. I LOVE this stage. It's about to get way fun.
My daughter did this and it gets very frustrating because you want them happy, but whatever you do they want the opposite. Don't worry - it will pass. My child just turned one and we don't have this issue anymore.... now it's the 'I want in the kitchem where I'm not suppose to be....'
Every day, all day long. Right about at that age. My back was killing me. It got better as soon as he started walking, which I was lucky was at 11 mos. Other moms told me it was a short phase too, even if their babies walked later. Walking around with him helped. I wore mine in a sling so that I could walk around and tell him all about the laundry, etc. It helped a lot.
