when do babies...(kinda long..sorry)

thibodeauxang

iknow all babies are different and do different things at different times but when do babies learn that crying will get them things? i knwo you cant spoil a baby at 2 months and believe me if you could...my man would be beyond spoiled buuuut hes startin to cry when he sees me walk out of a room, and cries when someone else is holding him and stops when i take him, and cries if i put him down just for a second and stops when i pick him up. well not really cry its more of a he pokes his bottom lip out and whimpers (really freakin cute) or say im on the computer doing something and hes next to me he'll do that whimper thing until i look at him or say something then he smiles so big and giggles. idk that to me sounds like he's doing it for attention and i know all babies crave their moms attention...but its not like he needs it, its more like...he does it just bc he can and he knows he'll get it. yall probably think im crazy but im tellin the truth

and also, i read on a milestone chart that babies dont grab and pick up toys until like 4 months and he already picks up toys, puts it in his mouth,..the other day he managed to get 3 of his lil circl toys around his wrist and wore them around like a braclet ahahha.

if thats the case....and he is a very fast learner, doees that mean i should try to let him cry things out more?

hailey1312

I don't see the point in letting him cry things out even if he has learned to get what he wants by pouting or crying. I mean if you feel like you can never put him down, he will have to learn he can't be held 100% of the time, BUT babies cry to communicate because that is the only way they know how and can, so it just does not make sense to ignore their cries once they figure out how to communicate that way! I'd try to calm him and soothe him after putting him down. Tell him it is ok (babies might not completely understand but in time they will) if someone else is holding him, maybe sit next to them and talk to him, then say, I am going in the other room and do so for a few minutes, then come back. He will learn that it is OK and you are not abandoning him. Babies don't know when you leave that it is not forever since they can't see you so it takes time to learn that.

 You very well might have a fast learner though! That is good! My baby is doing really well trying to hold her head up and almost can most of the time by herself, just not all the time. She kicks all the time but hasn't figured out her hands yet. She just waves them around and moves her hands but doesn't know what she's doing with them yet. She loves to "talk" to me though which is SO adorable! She'll lay there and coo and smile and wait for me to talk back then do it again! I think all babies develope at their own time table not necessarily according to the books.