My 5mth dd is really clingy to me, she won’t go to anyone else,my husband or other how do I help her as I’m going back to work soon and she will be at my parents for two Days a week. she will cry all the time I’m away, she is bottle fed
My 5mth dd is really clingy to me, she won’t go to anyone else,my husband or other how do I help her as I’m going back to work soon and she will be at my parents for two Days a week. she will cry all the time I’m away, she is bottle fed
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You start leaving for small amounts of time with your parents. Build it up to a full work day.
I have been, and she still cry’s when I’m not there, it doesn’t matter who she’s with, my husband,parents or my sister. If she’s alone or my two sons are there as well
I’ll let you in on a secret, she feels you, your energy, your feelings, your anxiety and picks up on it and puts it out there. Your parents need to step up their game and start stimulating her. If she cries and won’t stop they need to figure out why and it can’t just be because you aren’t there. Take her there hungry and let them feed her, bring her favourite toy, a shirt that smells of you. Her favourite songs and teddy with your voice recorded on it. Start with taking her over and leaving the room that she’s in whilst they’re feeding her. Then extend it and go further. Do not make a big fuss of saying goodbye, don’t let her see you leave. Grown ups come back. 10 mins, half an hour, an hour, 2 hours etc build it up. She’ll be right and so will you. When my daughter went to daycare she was one of the only ones that cried. I watched so many mums leave distressed and watched their kids stop crying within a few mins of them leaving and be playing happily when I left with the other kids. The daycare ladies said they’d never tell the mums that the kid just stopped crying once the door closed and their cars were gone.
My daughter was 100000% this. Hated everyone, i breastfed everyone told me to stop and she would be less clingy. I didnt. She was just a super attached baby. Started going to daddy at 6 months and at 12 month she changed overnight. Went from clingy to I love everyone.
Its bloody hard