Has anyone got any tips to get through this bit please, it’s utterly soul destroying 🙁
DD is a year old. Hitting all milestones, walking and can say a couple of words but she has really bad separation anxiety/clinginess and it’s driving me to the edge. She’s only wanted me since birth but it’s so bad now. I just want to run away at this point and I can’t do it any more!
I can’t dress or help my other child, eat properly, go in the shower…anything without her screaming, following me and clinging to my legs. She even must be sat on me while I’m eating, if I don’t allow it she screams and pulls at my clothes and claws me like a wild animal. She’s so persistent she will go on forever, I’ve tried ignoring it and removing her but it never stops, she comes back again and again and again.
Other examples include screaming and trying to get on my knee if I’m on the toilet, screaming in the pram with arms up wanting to be carried, following me around the house constantly screaming holding onto my clothes so I can’t do a single normal thing. She’s an expert escape artist and climber so the only way to contain her is to shut her behind a door (feels dangerous!) or strap her into her high chair which causes screaming the house down. I can’t afford childcare and I’m also pregnant again (not planned) so need this sorting before the new baby comes.
The only time she’s not crying is if I’m sat right next to her while she plays, preferably with her holding my hand or if she’s doing something forbidden she does not want me to interrupt like emptying cupboards or playing in the toilet. She’s not sick, not tired (sleeps all night thank god) and not hungry either. She’s perfectly happy at grandparents but transfers the clingy to my mum and behaves the same to my mum as she does to me only slightly less intense, as soon as I’m back she comes straight back to me and begins again. It goes on from 5am until 7-8pm…
Has anyone got any ideas of anything that might help? Please!?