https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:32:31 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-asking-for-attention#post-1808834 Mon, 11 Aug 2014 08:07:41 +0000 LovelyPlum 1808834@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So funny that they know how to do this! We joke that she takes after her puppy. Our dog has mastered the art of asking to go out by sitting and looking uncomfortable by the door. Once we are outside, she will fake pee and then run around (the real reason that she wants to go out). Silly girls :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-asking-for-attention#post-1808824 Mon, 11 Aug 2014 08:03:59 +0000 edelweiss 1808824@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>oh m gosh that's so cute! LO never did anything like that. he isn't particularly interested in our attention. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-asking-for-attention#post-1808812 Mon, 11 Aug 2014 07:59:31 +0000 JerricaBenton 1808812@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh yeah! The fake cough waa a favorite trick of LO's back then too! Now that she's older she'll fake fall and touch her butt saying 'ouch! Oww! Butt!' Haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-asking-for-attention#post-1808719 Mon, 11 Aug 2014 07:24:55 +0000 swedishfish 1808719@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>R still does this at 13 months because my parents thought it was funny to say "baby sick! Call the doctor!" every time she coughed....after warning me not to do that because they did it as a joke when I was little. Thanks, ma and pa. :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-asking-for-attention#post-1808711 Mon, 11 Aug 2014 07:15:16 +0000 illumina 1808711@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haha! I remember the fake cough...she still does it now occasionally! Mostly she just whines or crawls over and clings on us if she wants attention now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-asking-for-attention#post-1808700 Mon, 11 Aug 2014 07:09:48 +0000 lamariniere 1808700@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DS totally did this for a few weeks around 5 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-asking-for-attention#post-1808695 Mon, 11 Aug 2014 07:03:25 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1808695@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. If we aren't paying attention or she wants something, she'll fake cough and say she's sick. She can even do it on demand. </p> <p>I don't know where they learn this stuff. I swear they come hard wired with built in manipulation and guilt trips.</p> <p>ETA: now that she can talk, she verbalized that she's unhappy daddy is going to work. She'll tell out the window "but I'm your chloeeee! Don't you love me?! Don't go to work daddy!" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-asking-for-attention#post-1808694 Mon, 11 Aug 2014 07:03:20 +0000 Anagram 1808694@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My baby totally went through a fake cough stage around then, maybe a little older. It lasted a couple of months--but I think she figured out the sound and then noticed that we would rush to her if she coughed (thinking she'd picked up something and put it in her mouth and was choking, etc.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-asking-for-attention#post-1808692 Mon, 11 Aug 2014 07:02:21 +0000 LovelyPlum 1808692@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is 4 months old, and she does this thing where she will fake cough when we turn around to leave the room. I'm convinced it is fake because if I turn around to check on her, she busts out laughing. Annoying, but adorable. Where do they learn these things???</p> <p>Does your LO do anything like this? </p>