Very clingy 6 month old...HELP!!!

[ZackarysMummy]

my 6 month old son for the last 3 weeks or so has become incredibly clingy, screams if I leave the room & is unhappy being held by anyone else other than my husband or me. Iv read somewhere that this is a 'leap' in his development where he's learning about relationships & forming bonds now this does all make sense but it failed to explain the best way to deal with it.
Should we just embrace this stage and keep our fingers crossed it's over soon or should we be leaving him with other family members (the ones that can stand the screaming that is)
He's a very happy & healthy boy in every other way, smiles & giggles all day long as long as my husband or I are always somewhere he can see us

If you don't have to leave him with anyone then I would just go with it. Keep giving him to others for a cuddle while you are in sight - be very positive - and the phase should pass. Not necessarily quickly, mind!

I think you should continue to leave him with someone as what is a stage can become a behaviour. Also they need to feel happy to be left in case there is an emergency and he has to be left.

I have twins so cling invests was ultra painful. I found when the whinging for me started, the best thing to do was to immediately sit on the floor in front of some toys and put DTD (it was mostly her) on my lap facing out. This had the advantage of distracting her and not rewarding the whinging with a birds eye view of the world in mummy's arms. Quite quickly, she would be happy to bumble off again and play/roll about.

This is one of the few things I am ultra consistent about and I still use it now at 16 months.

It has the added advantage of allowing poor old DTS to get a cuddle at the same time without ratcheting up the panic of DTD who wants me.

He has just learned that when he can't see you, it might mean that you aren't close to him. It's part of him realising that you aren't an integral part of him and that things can still exist even when he can't see them.

Leaving him with someone else before he's old enough to work out that you will always come back won't make him less clingy. Quite the opposite in fact. Once he is old enough to understand that you being out of sight doesn't mean that you have ceased to exist, he'll be fine again.

Just ride it out by bringing him with you wherever possible, talking/singing to him when you have to be out of his line of sight and only leaving him with people that he's already very used to.