Help, I have a limpet-child! DD is about 2.7 and I am almost 20 weeks pregnant with DC2. She has been going to nursery since 6 months old and didn't seem to suffer from separation anxiety at the same time as other children.
However, the past few weeks she has insisted that, for all meals at home, she has to sit on my lap to eat them. She refuses to let go of me when I try to force her into a dining chair with a booster seat, her old high chair or even at her little table.
Which means I can't eat at the same time as her (so much for family meals and setting a good example). She also likes to kneel on my lap when she eats and wriggles like crazy. It's getting quite uncomfortable with my growing bump and I'm totally fed up of it.
She goes to nursery part of the week, where she eats absolutely fine sat at a table with her classmates.
At home, she often insists upon being carried around the house by me and, if we're out and about, will ask to be lifted out of her buggy and carried rather than walk. And carried by me, rather than DH, which is starting to get very difficult. I'm really resenting it now.
I have tried explaining to her that it hurts Mummy/makes Mummy tired but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Likewise telling her that she's a "big girl" seems to have the opposite effect, and she is acting more and more like a baby, except when it suits her (choosing clothes, for example). Her tantrums and behaviour in general have got worse since we started telling her about the new baby.
Has anyone else been through this? Am I right to think there is a connection to the pregnancy, or is this coincidental?