Please reassure me this is just a phase!
DD has just turned one and has started walking. Up to now she's been a really confident, independent sort who loved nursery (she's been going for 6 months now), happily sat and listened to a story, fed herself (messily) with a spoon and would let me leave the room if I said 'back in a bit' first.
Now, however...
My changeling is perfectly happy right up to the time I hand her over at nursery, at which she screams like a banshee - I never get reports of her laughing or enjoying things any more, rather slightly concerned reports of her being 'a bit quiet' all day which is really unlike her. At home she has the attention span of a gnat and will pick out a book only to throw it away as soon as I've opened the first page; won't sit to play with anything at all (won't sit down at all most of the time); insists on my feeding her or eating with her hands; and screeches even if I move away from her in plain sight at home. The one and only thing that keeps her occupied for more than a second is standing and throwing clothes out of drawers. Bedtime, which used to be relatively easy, has become an hours-long ordeal and always ends in screams.
She had chickenpox a few weeks ago and I expected her to get clingy after that, but it seems to get worse every day rather than better. The combination of clingy and hyperactive is really wearing me out! Please reassure me this will pass before I lose it completely?