What's normal for separation anxiety? 8mo

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My baby is 8.5 months old and I think she's been showing signs of separation anxiety for a few weeks. Sometimes if I give her to DH she cries, if she is with DH and happy, and I walk into the room and back out that upsets her. She doesn't like being held by others currently and I would say takes a bit of time to 'warm up' for want of a better phrase.

Is this perfectly normal at this age, is there anything I should or shouldn't do to help with it?

I was hoping for some experience from real parents instead of googling baby development, as I can get stuck down a rabbit hole! I've also got to leave DD in a couple of weeks for half a day and am a bit worried about it...

My DD started showing the same signs at 8 months and now at 11 months she’s getting a bit better. Only time she’s proper clingy and only wants me is when she’s not feeling well (like teeth or wind etc). She still hates strangers though, but I’m trying to work on that slowly.

Not really much help, but I’m pretty sure it’s normal? 😂

Totally normal.

There's a huge range of normal at that age. I've nannied 2 and had my own 3.

I've had everything from the placid one who would go to anyone and smile, and one who would scream the place down if someone other than me or parents spoke to them, or on a bad day looked at them.
One of mine would try and push dh away if he held him when I was available (but was fine when I wasn't), another used to like playing pass the parcel from one of us to the other.
And the amount of socialising doesn't necessarily make a difference, I think the two worst of the five of them probably had the most socialising (although not by a lot).