Leap
Also called leaps, Wonder Weeks, wonder week
A leap is a fussy, clingy few days that parents put down to a jump in development. The word comes from The Wonder Weeks, a book and app that name ten leaps at set weeks in the first 20 months.
How it's said
My baby is about halfway through leap 4 and he is a lot more serious and concentrating on things...
In our NCT group chat there was so much talk about leap 4 being the absolute worst!
Leap 4 is apparently one of the toughest development leaps and I do feel I've noticed a difference with my DC.
Who says it
Not to be confused with
- A growth spurt is a few days of fast growth in length and weight. A leap is about a jump in what a baby can do, though parents often put the same fussy days down to either.
Where it came from
The Wonder Weeks was written by Dutch researchers Hetty van de Rijt and Frans Plooij, and its leaps are counted from the due date, not the birthday.
The first independent attempt to repeat the original findings found no fussy peaks at the predicted weeks.