I will try and summarise this the best that I can.
First of all, our child that I am speaking about is our second born daughter. Instead of panicking about everything like I would have done with our first child, I’ve waited and hoped that things would get better, but they haven’t.
When she was born, she was an incredibly fussy baby, who would cry all of the time and never seemed content. She has been exclusively breastfed since birth and is still breastfeeding now (mostly at night). She was a bit later on with hitting her milestones, but has always reached them eventually e.g. she didn’t walk until 19/20 months.
Fast forward to now and here are a few things that I find concerning;
- She will not tolerate any family member besides myself, her dad and her sister, even though she is around them all of the time. She won’t let them near her or even speak to her at times. This is obviously worse with people she doesn’t know.
- Her sleep is terrible, with frequent wakes and will only be fed back to sleep or else she will literally scream the house down
- At times, she can be quite sensitive to loud noises & brightness, like clapping or if it’s sunny outside.
i am just hoping for a bit of advice, as I genuinely don’t know whether there are reasons to be concerned. I do think that a lot of the behaviours that she shows are just down to her personality. She has always been a very strong willed child who definitely knew her own mind, since the beginning.