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wow, this sounds just like my LO! hyperactive for sure! we struggle with sleep too =/ I'm exhausted all the time!

Both my babies! Toddler Girl was more fussy and Wonder Baby is more spirited, but they both feel like so much more work than all the other babies I know.

They're also way more alert and interactive, which is pretty awesome.

Ours is extremely high-needs. No one in my family has ever experienced such a fussy/ colicky baby before. She cried non-stop for the first 4 months of her life. She would only be held by me, not even her father, hated being swaddled and we stopped trying very early, has still never slept through the night at over 6 months old, there were many days in the first few months where I didn't even get a bathroom break, or eat, until my husband came home at lunch, I literally could not set her down for 1 second without a meltdown, I lived without a shirt because she nursed around the clock, couldn't leave her with anyone because she'd just cry the whole time, until the last few weeks, she would not nap without being held, she has always been very wiggly and tense, and many more high-needs traits. We recently found out a lot of it was due to tongue tie and lip tie which gave her acid reflux and made her very uncomfortable and hungry all the time. We recently had it corrected, and now she's a different baby. I read that a baby called "high needs" often is tongue tied, and it was true for us.