How to deal with discontented baby who started crawling at five months?

Infant 2-12 Months

My baby is six months old as of last week, and she has been crawling for a month. She has also been pulling up to stand, and basically that’s all she wants to do. She started rolling at 3.5 months and has been unstoppable ever since.Her personality is: into everything, always on the go, zero chill. Rarely smiles, screams like a baby eagle.

I love her to bits but I feel like she was a newborn for five seconds, she was happy for seven, and she was easy for maybe a week. The newborn period up to six weeks was a nightmare because of feeding struggles, she screamed for hours every day. Then she refused the boob and was ok for about a month until she rolled.

Every now and then I meet moms with babies like mine but most times I am so jealous of their cuddly, happy, boob obsessed babies. At baby groups she is a menace crawling all over other moms and babies, but at home she is even harder to deal with. I am feeling very down about it atm.

Is anyone else’s baby like mine? How do you cope? Does it get better when they walk? Am I doing something wrong?

Posted Oct 11, 2025, 7:44 PM UTC

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