Our sweet, easy-going, go-with-the-flow Johan seems to be morphing into a different baby. More demanding, less willing to sit nicely and play with toys so that mom or dad or grandma can take a shower or clean the kitchen floor. I've read that around this time (Johan is 8.5 months), babies get clingier. Fortunately, we have not descended into a hell of Johan refusing to be held or attended to by anyone but me. That's the good news. What he is doing, though, is intermittently demanding to only be held and attended to by a single person-- if he wants to be with me, he screams at Eduardo. And vice versa. He also has a strong attachment to Evelyn and apparently the receptionist at my office. Yesterday when I picked Johan up, he only wanted to stay with Evelyn. Greeaat.
My dad seems to think that this new behavior is because we co-sleep at night with Johan. I don't agree, because he takes naps in his crib without much protest, both at home and at grandparents house.
I'm hoping this is just a phase of neediness and that chill Johan re-emerges in the next few weeks.
1 comment:
I think he is starting to have a mind of his own and is starting to realize that he can communicate it to you. I don't think it is going to change - although the manner will change (Inga switched from screaming to punching the undesired person). I don't think where the baby sleeps has anything to do with it- it is called "growing up."
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