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Thanks for your response ally. I think she has gotten to use to being in my arms and me or someone always playing with her. I can't just leave her even in her exersaucer anymore! She needs to be constantly entertained or she gets whiny. I'm not sure if all babies are like this but its hard if I want to get some house work done.

I have one of each, one that needs the constant attention and one that is fine without it. It's just a personality thing that they are born with. Get a sling it's a life saver. You can maintain body contact and get things done at the same time. Just give a "play by play' of what you are doing. Don't make the mistake I did of using the TV (especially Sesame Street). It just makes it worse. TV creates shorter attention span and increases the need for stimulation. I wish I had never turned the thing on. I find cla__sical music to be calming for my high need one. Eliminating dairy products seems to have helped too since we found an allergy.

My baby was also hyper. I found out that I was eating too much sugar and caffine while b___stfeeding. I cut back and she calmed down a bit. A lot of the sugar came from icecream, so I'm thinking about the dairy issue that Cindy mentioned.

my almost 8 month old does the samething whenever my mom takes care of her. she carries her all the time and is always playing woth her. she doesnt put her down!! its great but when i have her and need her to play by herself she cries. i found it that it takes her a day or two to go back to normal. i know excatly how you feel. try not to pick her up as soon as she cries and give her a toy(show her how to play with it) this works for me sometimes.

my daughter is 5 weeks and i feel like that, how can i stop it/ prevent it from getting worse?

Thank you for your replies. Cindy, I actually do have a sling but she is getting way to heavy for me and I'm a really tiny girl. Angela, I've been trying your suggestion and not picking her up right away everytime she cries. Lisa, I have no idea how to keep it from getting worse. My hubby thinks that I'm way to hyper with her cause I'm always dancing and running around the house with her, then again he's crazy hyper with her too. He's always throwing her in the air and doing dad scary crazy things with her.

Young babies cry because they have needs. We just need to figure out what the problem is. Letting them cry doesn;t solve it, it just teaches them that they are "on their own" with that one.