Baby Quiz

I am finally reading a book that my friend Sabre gave me about babies. I put off reading it for a few months because I thought it would be another book to make me feel guilty about what I was doing wrong for Cody. But I love it! Her philosophy is kind of if you do everything your baby wants, you're not respecting yourself and if you do everything you want, you're not respecting your baby. I took a quiz to see what type of baby Cody was and I was laughing because he fit his category. He's a 'spirited' baby. A=Angel Baby, B=Textbook baby, C=Touchy baby, D=Spirited baby, E=Grumpy baby. Here are some of the questions that fit Cody particularly well, which makes him sound wild, but overall he is so much fun! What kind of baby do you have/were you? (this is for the 0-8 mos. time period)

1. My baby
A. rarely cries
B. cries only when she's hungry, tired or overstimulated
C. cries for no apparent reason
D. cries very loudly, and if I don't attend to it, she quickly gets into a rage cry
E. cries a lot of the time

2. When it's time for him to go to sleep, my baby
A. lies peacefully in his crib and drifts off to sleep
B. generally falls asleep easily within twenty minutes
C. fusses a bit and seems to be drifting off, but then he keeps waking up
D. is very restless and often needs to be swaddled or held
E. cries a lot and seems to resent being put down

3. When she wakes up in the morning, my baby
A. rarely cries-she plays in her crib until I come in
B. coos and looks around
C. needs immediate attention or she starts crying
D. screams
E. whimpers

4. My baby smiles
A. at everything and everybody
B. when prompted
C. when prompted but sometimes starts to cry within minutes of smiling
D. a lot and is also very vocal, tending to make very loud baby noises
E. only under the right circumstances

5. When I change my baby's diaper, bathe him, or dress him
A. he always takes it in stride
B. he is okay if I do it slowly and let him know what I'm doing
C. is often cranky, as if he can't stand being naked
D. wriggles a lot and tries to pull everything off the changing table
E. he hates it-dressing is always a battle

6. My baby seems to
A. feel utterly safe in her own bed (crib)
B. prefer her bed most of the time
C. feel insecure in her bed
D. act feisty, like her bed is a prison
E. resent being put down into her bed

7. A comment that best describes my baby is that
A. you hardly know there's a baby in the house-he's good as gold
B. he's easy to handle, easy to predict
C. he's a very delicate little thing
D. I fear when he begins crawling, he's going to get into everything
E. he's an "old soul"-he acts like he's been here before