I've reached this conclusion with some help from my cousin who has one of each.
Girl babies are hard work.
Tabitha needs alot more attention and stimulation than the boys ever did. When she's awake I'm spending every minute trying to keep her happy, or consoling her when my efforts fail. I am permanently taking her from A to B to C to D to E to F in my efforts to entertain her. She is absolutely not content to sit or lie down and watch the world go by. She also gets very over-wrought and over-tired and in the case of last night gets herself into a state and then cannot go to sleep (until 11.30pm - ARGH). If she is content doing something it is for a very short time untl she gets fed up.
She is nursing alot when awake and unlike the boys used to, doesn't get into that nice milky full sleepy state afterwards, is back up and raring to go again and usually grumbling.
My boy babies were quite different in in comparison! As long as their bellies were full they were much easier, they would happily lie on a play mat for a while or sit in a bouncy chair, or on your knee and spend a couple of happy hours between naps and feeds.
It's a fact that girls tend to develop more quickly than boys, in particuar girls are alot more into mentally stimulating activities as children than boys are, tend to talk earlier, read earlier, etc while boys are more advanced with the physical development. I think that this is why girls are more difficult as babies too - they're more alert and aware than their male counterparts and they require alot more stimulation and entertainment to satisfy their needs.
Bugger.
Posted by katie at August 23, 2007 03:19 PM