10 month old goes psycho when trying to dress her!
Someone please tell me this is just a phase!! DD is a nightmare to dress, especially after a bath. The past few weeks, she has started throwing the biggest tantrums when we try to dress her after a bath in the evening. It takes two of us to do it now She HATES it! Once she's dressed, she's quite happy but the whole process is quite upsetting for all involved. She arches her back, screams, twists, turns - does anything to avoid being dressed. And no amount of distraction makes it any easier!
I just don't know what we can do to make it easier for all of us. It's almost like she's really traumatised by the whole experience but I don't think that's the case, I'm hoping she's just trying to get her own way, testing out her new found indpendence, lol.
I feel your pain too! Where are you dressing her after her bath? I was dressing DD in the bathroom after her bath and it became impossible, so I now take her to her change table and dress her there. It's harder for her to escape and she seems to accept it slightly better (I do mean slightly ). I always give her something to play with while dressing her too to help distract her.
My 10 month old is the same. I take the whole process quite slowley which he seems happy with. I let him crawl around his bedroom, when he comes close I pop in an arm, etc. I find that if I just try and push through he gets really upset by the end of it. This way he gets cranky for just a second or so and then continues on. It does take a long time though, but luckliy for me it isn't ever change he gets cranky with.
Yep, same thing here atm. Have you tried dressing her in front of the mirror so she can watch the 'action'? Just a thought, sometimes works with DD. Its soooo frustrating especially when they are in a great mood just before! Hopefully it will get better for everyone on this thread soon
Miss A cracks it when I dress her after bath time too. Not to bring you down, but I remember forcing DS to get his clothes on many many times until he started dressing himself about 6 months ago...
10 month old goes psycho when trying to dress her!
She HATES it! Once she's dressed, she's quite happy but the whole process is quite upsetting for all involved. She arches her back, screams, twists, turns - does anything to avoid being dressed. And no amount of distraction makes it any easier!
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). I always give her something to play with while dressing her too to help distract her.
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