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Crying 6 month old

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samsmam · 17/04/2007 20:53

I have a beautiful DD- 6 months old. She has been a model baby for the first 6 months, really placid and content. Just recently she cries everytime she is put down alone or DP and I are out of sight. As soon as she is picked up she stops crying. Any ideas/suggestions?

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purpleturtle · 17/04/2007 20:56

It's called separation anxiety. It's a phase. She'll grow out of it.

Can be very annoying in the meantime, though. It's nothing you've done, and you mustn't take it personally. It's just her age.

DaisyMOO · 17/04/2007 20:57

Normal normal normal. Go with it. Pick her up if she cries, show her you will always respond to her if she needs you. Buy a sling if necessary. It gets easier when they can follow you around IME and doesn't last forever. DS3 is called (annoyingly) 'the attachment' by my parents because he wanted to be picked up and carried all the time when he was a baby. He's 18 months now and one of the most independent toddlers I know

whomovedmychocolate · 17/04/2007 20:58

Mine too - it's a bugger isn't it. I can't even go for a pee on my own anymore!

mush4brains · 18/04/2007 08:57

oh glad its not just mine!! wondered what I had done wrong.

GooseyLoosey · 18/04/2007 09:01

As everyone else says - normal. Apparently the baby starts to develop a sense of itself as an individual entity around 6 months old and therefore suddenly realises when other people are not there that it is alone. She will grow out if it once she understands that people will always come back and she is not alone for long.

whomovedmychocolate · 19/04/2007 10:43

I find singing helps, if she can hear me, she knows I'm still there although DH bought a new lock for the bathroom because he though it must be broken because I sang everytime I was in there

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samsmam · 19/04/2007 20:34

Thanks for al your advice- I feel like I just have to give my time to LO and if stuff doesn't get done- then it can wait. Singing- my voice but I guess it could work.

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Sakura · 20/04/2007 01:10

Yes, my DD is the same age and is the same. I`ve been "doing" attachment parenting with the sling and all that. THen this morning I had a moment of doubt and thought "all of this seems to be making her into a clingy baby after all". But glad to hear that its just a phase. They say that babies have to satisfy their need for dependancy before they can ever really become independant.

nappyaddict · 20/04/2007 01:49

carry her in a sling.

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