Marlene two of my 3 children went through this at about 5 months (the other child is still kinda over wrought easily)... and i put it down to over stimulation and the new degree of awareness during this age. What I found helped was increasing times of 'sensory deprivation' (ie reducing the amount of sensory imput: sight, smell, sound etc). So I increased time spent in a dimmed room, in my rocking chair, in silence with no new smells etc or in a bath, with just a candle light, no sound except the water, and me saying as little as possible, slow movements etc). Some babies i find just need a bit more 'time out' from the world at this stage of their development. They need time to process all the new information that have have been exposed to during the day.
Imagine that you are a tourist in a foreign land where everything is new... absolutely everything... even the colour of the sky (imagine it was green)... and all the local customs... it would become exhausting for us after a while and the same happens with babies. I remember travelling overseas for the first time and "wasting" (not really) a day inside my hotel room just reading a book. I felt that I needed to centre myself... I needed to stay in a place where I knew what to expect and where I could control my environment a bit more. If someone had insisted that I drag myself out and keep exposing myself to more new sights and sounds (foreign languages) I would have thrown a hissy fit too! The stress of exposure to "newness" is a learned skill and easier to deal with when you are an adult. I'm not saying that this is definatley the issue here... but it might be... it's common at this age. Maybe just try slowing down life for a little while... contracting your son's world (limiting the number of new activities, places and faces) and I'm sure (if this is the problem) then this phase "shall pass" too.
Last edited by Bathsheba; October 12th, 2008 at 01:23 PM.
two of my 3 children went through this at about 5 months (the other child is still kinda over wrought easily)... and i put it down to over stimulation and the new degree of awareness during this age. What I found helped was increasing times of 'sensory deprivation' (ie reducing the amount of sensory imput: sight, smell, sound etc). So I increased time spent in a dimmed room, in my rocking chair, in silence with no new smells etc or in a bath, with just a candle light, no sound except the water, and me saying as little as possible, slow movements etc). Some babies i find just need a bit more 'time out' from the world at this stage of their development. They need time to process all the new information that have have been exposed to during the day.
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