dd, 14mths, makes strange with dad

[hermykne]

my dd has started making strange with my dh and her dad! she will not go in his arms, nappy change a nightmare, wont stay downstairs with him if i go up.if i come back from being out she just wont let me go, cooking is a bit difficult, in other words shes got very clingy to me.
anybody else had this?

any ideas?

Sounds very normal to me Hermykne ... My DS went through a very clingy stage when he was that age and no one but mummy would do ... even though from birth he was very much a 'daddy's boy' ...
The only thing that worked for DS to build confidence with DH was for me to leave the house and let DH get on with it ... if DS knew I wasn't in the house he was fine ....
I believe it is a normal stage and they do get through the other side!

dd is doing this now (19 months). Poor old dp.

Not much help but most children go through some sort of seperation anxiety when their little, it just shows that you're the one who she feels most safe with as you're her mother and probably spend the most amount of time with her then this is only natural (imo).

Not much help but it will get better on its own given some time

I still have to go to the toilet with an audience of not just ds (20 months) but also dd if the mood takes her, if only health professionals would tell you that you gave up all rights to privacy as you entered the labour suite...........

Both my boys went through this at about the same age as your dd. In fact ds2, now 2.5, still has days when only mummy will do. Why is it he only ever wants ME to change his dirty nappies ?!

Jenie - lol!

I can just imagine the midwife stopping to say - "and you do realise you'll have no privacy, little life of your own at all and an awsome responsibility for at least 18 years". I would have punched her! That kind of warning at conception would be a differnet thing...

People tell you about stretch marks and piles and varicus(sp) vains, they even seem to take great delight in telling you about their horrific birth stories but they never tell you about the toilet thing, why is that?

thanks for the reassurance !

hermykne, think my daughter's the same age as yours - 14 months? she's doing exactly the same! only yesterday morning i left her with her dad to go wash my hair and she stood by the baby gate the whole time wailing for me to come back and nothing he did would cheer her up. the other day when he looked after her on his own he said she kept saying 'mommm mommm' and rubbing her eyes whenever he tried to pick her up.