7 month old screams when I leave the room

[evilharpy]

I know some degree of separation anxiety is normal but my 7 month old has been like this since she was about 8 weeks. The instant I leave the room, and I mean within about four seconds, she screams bloody murder, proper tears etc, and takes quite a lot of consoling when I return. Going for a quick wee ends in a major screaming session, hanging out the washing is impossible. I can't just pop up the stairs for something I've forgotten, I have to carry a 19lb baby everywhere. It's exhausting. Endless games of peekaboo haven't helped at all. I do keep trying to leave her for short periods and get her used to me going and coming back but it never gets beyond the immediate screaming.

She is ok as long as someone is with her, it doesn't have to be me, but can't be left on her own at all, ever, not even for a second.

She is a very very difficult baby in many other ways too - she is very high needs although her sleep isn't actually that bad.

Please tell me this gets better sooner rather than later as it really is very difficult.

[maskingtherealme]

My 4 month old DD is like this. I sit her with her gran or dad and she looks up at me with a 'don't leave me' expression and cries. I can enter a room unbeknownst to her but if I open my mouth, she turns and cries.
She is only a 12lber but bloody hell, it takes it toll on the arms!

She has just started posseting loads, hiccuping more and gagging like acid in the back of her throat. She won't go in her bouncer anymore, used to loveher playmat and now won't tolerate it, won't go in the swing (it needs batteries) and seems grumpy in her jumperoo now! She is only happy when being carried. Sitting causes her 'pain' and she gets grumpy. My God, she screams for England and is a bloody diva with the tears!!

Her sleep is God-damn awful! 7-9 cat-naps a day of 15-30 minutes in length and only sleeps for 8 hours between 7pm and 7am. I can't move her from a place she has fallen asleep in without waking her and she will nap in a pram but only when moving.

DS was a super easy baby but DD is my nightmare child! As a firstborn she would have been an 'only child'.

You-re not alone. I think in some babies it is 'normal'. It is 'them' and we can't bloody change them! I have tried and tried to establish daytime nap routines and I can't. Children's Centre have offered support but I have postponed until about 9/10 months when weaning well established.

[Crazyqueenofthecatladies]

Masking you are describing pretty much all the symptoms of reflux and/or cmpi going. This is pain not personality. And it is completely fixable.

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

I agree, what you are describing sounds just like reflux.

[Superworm]

DS has CMPA & allergic to soy and was like this at times. Mostly related to tummy ache I think and would only be ok if I was there for reassurance. To a degree it's normal behaviour the separation thing but the grumpiness not so much.

I realised when he was two that he is also allergic to eggs, which contributed but I didn't know it at the time.