Nine months in and it's all change for my DS in our household. Overnight we seem to have mastered crawling, waving, sleeping through the night and gained a first tooth! Now I feel that I can freely admit that, yes, I was jealous of all those babies who seemed to be doing all of this from the age of 5 months (or so their mothers might suggest). It's funny how annoying it becomes when friends (who are only being kind and helpful) continue to say 'don't worry all babies are different', 'they will crawl when they are ready', 'we are just lucky our baby has always slept through'. You just sometimes want to hear what they honestly think 'well you probably haven't given him enough tummy time', 'you're on your mobile too much and not interacting with your baby', ' you're too quick to comfort your child at night' and maybe in the end that would have been more helpful.
However, now that my DS has accomplished all of these, I know I will probably join my smug friends and hand out the same advice as they did.... Anything to avoid offending anyone in the typical British fashion.
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