DD (almost 9 months) has been showing all the signs of separation anxiety for a couple of weeks - in particular, she cries when I leave the room and crawls over to me when left alone to play. I'm learning how to do everything one handed with her in my arms but would really rather she played independently at times!
I've been trying to go to lots of play groups to encourage her to play without me, which is slowly working. However, it's now affecting her at night which I am less tolerant of! She is waking a couple of times at night and needing some reassurance to get back to sleep. At times, I've resorted to feeding her to sleep because I know it's a quick way of getting her back down but would obviously rather that she went back to settling herself.
Any tips on how to get through this phase (which I know will pass!)?
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Separation anxiety - how to cope?!
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StepfauxWife · 03/04/2014 10:11
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