Is this normal?

So DD is now 8 months old and has all her meals in her highchair, For the past 2 or 3 weeks she has started thrusting herself backwards against the back of the highchair over and over, at first we thought maybe it was because she was done and ready to get out of the highchair, but she does it when she is still eating quite often and shows no distress when doing it, in fact quite often does it with a huge smile on her face.

Any ideas why she would be doing this... I know this probably seems like nothing but people have asked what she is doing, and I'm a little worried if she was to do it on someone elses high chair that might not have so much padding or is shorter and could maybe tip?

Bex I'm probably not much help, but Ruby used to do the exat same thing ! We still have no idea why maybe they like the rythm or the noise .   Once it starts to hurt they stop

She also used to bang her head on her bedroom wall before her naps

Its just her testing out new things, she probably thinks its great fun lol, Caden did it too and still does it sometimes.

Nothing to worry about :)

Bex Lily does this too on occasion! But she gets really excited about it too

K does something similar, not in highchari but being held or sitting up anywhere she just suddenly throws herself backwards. She thinks its great fun!! I presume its just a phase.

Yep Jackson did it too. He sometimes still does if he's had enough of being in the highchair. I just ignored it

yup mack did it too. he was in a P&T attatched to the table so it was low on his back and used to hurt so it was short lived. definitely went through the same phase though

Wow - I'm so glad I just read this thread, Teyla has just started doing this too! I wondered what on earth was up.