Kicking...please make it stop!!!

Babybear70

Hey girls. I'm coming over a few days early, but I need some help. DS has been a kicker since day one, and when I say day one I'm talking in utero!! And now that he is bigger and stronger, the kicking has really started to take its toll on me. It only happens when I lay him down to change his diaper or clothes. Any other time he is fine, and he only seems to do it with me. I give him toys, make googlie faces at him, sing, talk...I've done it all but the kicking continues. Last night he kicked me really hard and kicked the dirty diaper right out of my hand. I grabbed his foot and smacked it (not super hard, just to get his attention) and told him "No, we don't kick Mommy" in a hard but calm tone, and then he started to cry. I don't know if he cried because of my voice or because of the smack to the foot, but because I made him cry I felt like a horrible mom and I balled after I got him down to bed because i don't want him to lose trust in me.

I just need the kicking to stop. Do any of your babies do this? Or for those STM, is it a phase? Do they eventually grow out of it?

Edit: for clarification

huskymomma94

Sounds like normal 9 month old behavior. I really dont think that "smacking"  him is going to help. He wasn't maliciously kicking the diaper out of your hand.

Seriously.

buzzbee24

I think it's a phase. DS was doing this for a while and just stopped. I would tell him ouch, that hurts mommy but never smack him or yell. He outgrew it. Good luck!

Babybear70

Well, the smack wasn't intended to hurt him, just to get his attention, but either way it will never happen again. Nothing good came of the situation so we are past that. I just wondered if he would grow out of it. I don't yell at him either, I think that

buzzbee24

Babybear70:

Well, the smack wasn't intended to hurt him, just to get his attention, but either way it will never happen again. Noth

kaybee10

Don't feel bad I could have wrote the same post just not about kicking. Dd has started a throwing phase. Anything she's not happy with gets thrown. At dinner she kept throwing her sippy in the floor. I would say no but she would just look at me and smile.

stanfordt04

i do believe that babies this age are beginning to test their limits. they are watching your response to their behavior. kicking may be a "phase" but obviously one that you are not comfortable with your son doing... which i would feel the same, he can

ktpaladino

stanfordt04:

i do believe that babies this age are beginning to test their limits. they are watching your response to their behav

ktpaladino

stanfordt04:

i do believe that babies this age are beginning to test their limits. they are watching your response to their behavio

ktpaladino

stanfordt04:

i do believe that babies this age are beginning to test their limits. they are watching your response to their behavio

ktpaladino

Ahh I swear I only hit the post button once! It won't let me delete the duplicates...still working on it.

buzzbee24

ktpaladino:

Ahh I swear I only hit the post button once! It won't let me delete the duplicates...still working on it.

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allisonmarie22v4

Sounds normal to me.  Mine both do it and it drives me nuts.  They just think it's fun.

yepyepsms

Same here - DS kicks all the time, usually when he is excited, and usually does it just right on my c-section scar that it hurts like hell. 

I have had to start a firm "no" and correction of him pulling off my glasses and throwing th

lalafirefly27

Yeah dd likes to do the frog kick and the alligator death roll during diaper.changes lol. I got kicked in the chin today..luckily it wasnt thd foot that landed in the poopy diaper. Hope this phase passes quickly.