My almost 12 month old DS seems to have developed a fear of other babies.
We have spent a couple of weeks not going to groups or seeing many friends because of colds (his and mine!) and I'm hoping it's just because of this as I can't think of anything else that would have caused this. He has never been scared of babies before and seems fine around adults even strangers.
Currently if another baby goes anywhere near him he cries very hard and today he screamed very loudly in my friends DD's face and then tried to bite and hit her All she had done was sit down close to him.
He didn't manage to bite her because I got my hand between his mouth and her face. I immediately moved him away from her, told him no biting and distracted him with a toy but could this have validated his behaviour?
My gut reaction is to keep taking him to my usual groups and friends houses but I hate to see him feeling so frightened and I'm also now very worried he is going to hurt another baby.
Does anyone have any experience of this or any advice on how to handle it?
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12 month old afraid of other babies
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Miggs28 · 13/05/2014 22:19
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