Mummy's Girl

kelly-mum-2-be

Active Member
Joined
Jul 14, 2005
Messages
32
Reaction score
0
My baby Kaitlin has been poorly with cold and infections. Now she has become so clingy and it gets me down. i cant even leave the room without her crying its become such hard work.. Does anybody have any advice? xxx
 
awww the poor little mite, hope shes feeling better, its that time of year I guess!

Whats probably happened is shes gotten used to the extra attention you no doubt lavished on her while shes been poorly, as any loving mother would, and is feeling a little insecure now that shes getting better - babies are more intelligent than we give them credit for sometimes!

Or it could be that shes reached that magical age when they realise they are a seperate person to you and test the boundaries of independance v dependance and just happens to be the same time as shes gotten poorly.

My advice would be to give her lots and lots of praise and encouragement when she does sit quietly without being clingy, tell her what a big girl she is and then reward her with a treat or something exiting to do that she can do on her own. When she does get very very clingy and your stress levels go up maybe give her to your partner when hes there and leafve the room for 5 minutes, give you both some time out and show her that she cant have you all to herself all the time.

Hope that helps
 
awww bless her she feels comfortable and knows ull look agfter her B was like this a lil while a go i know it does ur head in but they do come thro it :D:D
could u get a baby carrier to keep her with u ??
 
what about trying out some mother and baby groups so she can learn to interact with other children and play by herself abit? kind of distracting her and showing her she can be happy without been attached to you...
 
thanjk you for your replies. The reason i dont understand why she is like this is because i go to college full time and she has been in nursery since september. Also i do have a partner but he is not her dad so when she gets clingy she just wants me, its hard.. Although i do praise her when she sits on her own when i leave the room.. But that is not very often lol..She was never like this before she became ill...xxx
 
kelly-mum-2-be said:
My baby Kaitlin has been poorly with cold and infections. Now she has become so clingy and it gets me down. i cant even leave the room without her crying its become such hard work.. Does anybody have any advice? xxx

aww you'll just have to leave everything and sit with the poorly mite.
 

Users who are viewing this thread

Members online

No members online now.

Latest posts

Forum statistics

Threads
473,583
Messages
4,654,682
Members
110,060
Latest member
shadenahill
Back
Top