She whinges and whines and cries all the while when she is with me. Whenever we are at home together or if I've just been reunited with her, for instance after a day at nursery or after a morning with Mil. I'm always told how happy she is so wtf am I doing wrong. At nursery she'll be playing happily, clock me and that's it, the tears start. It's like she bottles it up for me, the cork pops and off she goes. Then the whinging just seems to continue all the way home and for the afternoon/evening. She only really seems to stop when we go out together or if I'm not there at all. I don't think it's a tired thing, this morning it started at 6.30 until we left the house. I wonder if she is bored or if I need to stop Bf'ing.
It's starting to really wind me up. Makes me wanna scream and slam doors. Then she wakes during the night with more crying. DH is fed up with trying to talk to me over her whinging too, I feel the tension and he ends up leaving for work early or bailing out to another room.
DD is 17 months and always been a whingey baby from day.
AIBU to have such strong resentment about her crying with me all the bloody time? Do I just need more patience?
AIBU?
To be completely sick of listening to my toddler?
user15145897 · 28/03/2017 20:09
It's shit now, it will pass.
My first DS was like this (still is) and it is tiredness. If he doesn't have a good nights sleep and when he was younger, a nap, I deal with a beast.
My younger sister - who I was childcare for as there is a huge age gap was also like this.
Always had reports back of how wonderful she is but the demon was unleashed as soon as we stepped out of that setting!
My mum always said she would rather it was that way round as it meant she wasn't left embarrassed by her behaviour at nursery/school etc.
Couldn't of left my mum that desperate, she had another 2 after!
She is now however, joining the circus....so perhaps she was a little odd! 
Ditto what Sheepy said: in my experience children play-up the most where they feel safest. So in good news; you're winning!!
for you - DD has had a particularly whingey WEEK (she's only five months old) and I'm already ready to scream (silently into the abyss, I realise screaming at her would be entirely counterproductive).
Thanks for being so understanding! Some really reassuring words of wisdom, nice to know other people get it. And that I'm not a crap mum for letting it drive me mad. I will approach tomorrow with a new outlook on the whinging! Starling i nearly cried when I read your reply- flippin heck you can tell it's been a bad day. 
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to all of you that have endured a constant whinger!!!
Yes, Notthebell, you're right she becomes whingey then tearful. She only says about three things at the moment so I can't really as her to explain herself with words or the cat would feature heavily in any explanations. She's still very little but it's just so relentless! I actually dread picking her up or arriving home to her :-(
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