To want to cuddle my newborn

[workingmummyof2soontobe3]

My baby is 5 weeks old, he’s my third baby and likes to be held. Constantly. My other two would let me put them down while I was making tea, doing housework etc but I’m attached to my baby all day everyday. My husband is doing everything around the house but I’m normally the one doing all the housework so it’s a bit of a challenge for me to sit back and watch. I am secretly enjoying lazing around with my newborn on my chest though. I do however keep getting a lot of comments about how I’m creating a clingy baby and making a rod for my own back. The alternative is to listen to him cry all day which I’m not prepared to do but I do worry he will never let me put him down ever again (irrational I know)

So please tell me how you spent the first few months with your newborns and when you was able to get on with off jobs again and do you miss those early days of cuddles?

Eventually he'll want to be put down and you'll wish he wanted cuddles again.

Cuddle away! It doesn’t last long.

Ignore them! You can’t spoil a baby

Enjoy the cuddles if that's what you like doing, totally your prerogative and not for anyone to criticise. I loved newborn cuddles too- I would also say mine were clingy babies, not sure if I created that or responded to that. Not much housework happened.

They didn't stay like it as young children though so I don't think it matters either way. Congratulations!

What the PP said. You can't cuddle your child too much. It's a fact. Let your husband get on with housework and enjoy the moment with your little one. I spent the first few months permanently attached to my little girl who is now 2. I wouldn't change it for anything. I adore her and she knows I'll always be there for her

Do what you like but a sling helps you cuddle and get on with stuff if you want to!

Ha! My DD was like that and I went with the flow. She's 5 now and still v cuddly!

I don't feel that sentimental about the early months though. I really wanted to put her down sometimes!

Keep enjoying those newborn cuddles. And if you really have to get stuff done get a sling? I had my three permanently strapped to me for the first 6 months or so. No rod was ever made by cuddling a baby.

I had one of those, had to be held. Constantly. She hardly let's me cwtch her anymore so no I didn't spoil her.
Cuddle away!

We have a cuddly newborn too, although she doesn’t mind who’s cuddling her! If we put her down while she’s sleeping she’ll wake up within w few mins crying. You can’t spoil a newborn and who wants to listen to their tears?!

You can't create a clingy baby, lots of new borns need to be held. I am currently pinned under my latest new born fosterling as she doesn't want to be put down but that day will come just like it has with all the other new borns that we have had live with us. Do what you feel is right for you and your baby and enjoy this time.

Exactly the same here. Except my 5 week old is my first. There's been a couple if comments but I literally just say the alternative is him crying alone in his cot and it won't be forever.
I got a close caboo carrier and its a god send. He's pretty much back inside my belly and considering the fight we had to get him out in the first place it's clearly his favourite place to be!

Do whatever you want! My little boy is like this so he’s in a sling on me pretty much constantly

You can’t spoil a baby. Cuddle away .

I have a clingy 4 week old. Can I ask how you are getting sleep at night? Mine only wants to sleep on me and cries when he's in the next-to-me crib.

Cuddle cuddle cuddle and enjoy the newborn smell and the little noises they make when they sleep. Adorable I don’t think a baby can be too clingy or spoilt, I don’t know who said that but it’s rubbish. Enjoy every second, it goes past too quickly.

Congratulations on your lovely baby, ive had 4 and wish I could go back and cuddle them more ❤️

My third baby slept in the sling all day, was ‘played with’ in the evening briefly after the other two’s bedtime and then slept on the boob all night. Was the only way I could cope.

Newborn cuddles are lush I really enjoyed those lazy early day but I ended up using a sling as DH was working and although willing to do pretty much everything I didn’t feel that was fair (we also shared all the night-wakes and feeds) and I still had 2 other kids to sort out

You can’t spoil a baby tho and defo won’t make a rod for your own back!

Spending time with your children doesn't make them clingy, it makes them feel secure and well loved. If he wants to be held then hold him and meet his needs. He might just be an anxious baby who needs more reassurance. There's something very special about that newborn time so enjoy your cuddles.

You’ll never regret giving your kids too many cuddles but you will regret not giving them enough. Ignore the comments and cuddle away.

Cuddle away! If you need to get stuff done, what about a stretchy sling?

My 4 month old has never been more than a metre away from me and is in physical contact with me around 20hrs a day. Dd2 was exactly the same and she is SO confident and independent, it makes them feel secure so they actually end up less clingy

Some babies are just cuddly! If you need to get things done then the sling is a godsend, but don’t worry about ‘spoiling’ them - you can’t spoil a baby.

I had to get a sling in the end just to go to the loo etc! He was very content in that.