19 month old dd is starting to get her first 'worries' (don't know how else to put it) and I was wondering what is the best way of handling it. She fixates on certain incidents that have happened for instance when she was having her bath on Friday night someone came to our flat and pressed the buzzer repeatedly (it's quite noisy and we never have visitors at that time). In the bath she did her usual thing when she's a bit freaked of freezing solid and putting her head onto me. As the buzzing went on and on I got her out of the bath and we went to the door (it was a male friend bringing some photos from a party dd and I had been to). I was very calm and reassuring all the time and we had a brief chat with the man at the door and he went off pretty quickly and dd and I enjoyed looking at the photos. But since that happened she hasn't stopped talking about it in an increasingly anxious way. She says 'buzzer buzzer! Man! Mamma! Door! Oh dear oh dear' etc. and gets herself into a tizz. So far I've just repeated the story of it over and over for her in a very neutral calm voice and tried to make it funny and friendly but she can't stop thinking about it, especially at bath and bedtime.
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