Hi all,
My DD is almost 9mo. She's generally a very happy baby, eats well, sleeps well. But the last few weeks, she has become uber clingy and uber whingy.
She's not ill, her temperature is perfectly normal and I took her to the doctors as she was whingy all the time and I thought possibly an ear infection or something, but doctor had given her a perfect bill of health.
She's eating very well (normal day consists of 6oz bottle, breakfast, 6oz bottle and small snack mid morning, lunch, 6oz bottle and a small snack mid afternoon, dinner + pudding, and 8oz bottle before bed), so she's not hungry.
She doesn't seem to have any digestive issues, poos are perfectly normal.
So my last thought is the fabled 9 month separation anxiety!
If she is in the room with me, all she wants to do is climb all over me, whinging and moaning as she does it, and if I don't immediately pick her up, she goes into tantrum mode, no tears, just noise!
I try to distract her with toys, but she will be interested for a few minutes and then start whinging at me again. When I do pick her up, she will stay with me for a few minutes, starts whinging and leaning towards the floor, but then I put her down and she starts the cycle again! She is the same when her dad is around too.
It's very strange. I'm just looking for some advice from others who have experienced similar?
Do I just have to grin and bear it until she grows out of it? Or does anyone have any magic tricks that I can try to distract her?