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Help my daughter has turned into an extra limb!

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YORK · 13/12/2004 10:57

I am going mad! DD (14 months) has resorted to grabbing my leg as soon as I walk into the kitchen and screams non stop. Wether I am washing up, getting her a bottle out in the morning or evening, whatever it is, she hates it. Any suggestions?

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YORK · 13/12/2004 11:12

Anyone out there?

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Mum2girls · 13/12/2004 11:22

Is it just the kitchen?

Newbarnsleygirl · 13/12/2004 11:35

Yeah, I find myself dancing around to stop her from grabbing my legs! You can imagine the scene when I'm cooking!

Newbarnsleygirl · 13/12/2004 11:36

By the way I've just changed my name! Sorry for the confusion!

Mum2girls · 13/12/2004 11:38

Can you put her in a high chair in the kitchen with you - or does she cry unless you're holding her (or she's holding you )?

Newbarnsleygirl · 13/12/2004 11:45

That's right. She'll wear sitting in the high chair for about 2 minutes and then go back to screaming again unless she's eating! The minute you pick her up she's fine.

Mum2girls · 13/12/2004 13:49

Little monkey! Well as I tell myself, when I consider that I've had just 1 undisturbed nights sleep in the past 7 months, it's just a phase, they can't go on like this forever.....

ernest · 13/12/2004 14:22

I remember the leg grabbing. also mainly in kitchem iirr. well, it is just a phase. it is very annoying. i guess you're going to have to choose which is the most bearable, leg grabbing or crying in high chair. maybe give her a pile of raisins to slowly munch on will help w. the screaming?

Kaz33 · 15/12/2004 13:08

Yep, that was DS2 about the same age - he is now 18 months and has improved, but still tries it on. If you are tough you can just let her scream it out, when she realises that you are not going to pick her up when she screams she will stop doing it. Tough though, because they can make a hell of a noise.

By the time mine was 14 months, he could wriggle down in his high chair so that didn't work.

Tigerlillies · 15/12/2004 13:15

She just wants to see what you are doing. Why not buy a back carrier so you both can get on with what you want to be doing?

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