I have just returned to work 3 days a week and DS is 1 year old. Since starting with the childminder DS is like a limpet at home - very hard to pry him off, he won't cuddle/ be held by others. This, I can deal with, thinking it will get better over time.
It's the nights that are killing me - DS used to sleep from 7-5am waking for one BF before sleeping until 6. Now he wakes constantly through the whole night. I started holding out on breastfeeding him until it turned to 5am but I had 3 nights in a row of being up, rocking him almost the entire night and I can't do that anymore. So I started BFing him again on demand and he is waking up to 5 times a night, sometimes just crying and not wanting the breast, other times sucking for an hour at a time.
Am I doing something wrong or making his separation anxiety worse in some way? I am feeling like a s*it mother tbh and also I'm utterly useless at work as result.
DS - loves the CM - playing and smiling all day, my dad drops him off there and he crawls to CM immediately and is never anxious to leave when my dad picks him up....
Any advice, similar stories and experiences would help- I;m feeling quite alone and sick of friends/family saying- 'ooo he's so clingy now- he used to be so outgoing..' -