I fell a bit daft asking this, especially since i've been minding for 7 years.
Mindee 1 has finally turned up, i've not known since before Christmas when he was starting back. The two weeks before christmas he was getting even more clingy than usual, crying his eyes out if i left the room, and from 5pm when DH got home until 6pm when he was picked up he would screech if DH was in the room. He had an almost permanent cold,and just didn't seem right, so we put it down to him not being well. Also Dh had a few days off before Chrismtas and was around the house, which just seemed to make him screech even more. It got to the point where i was doing nothing with the other mindees as it would just make this little one cry.i did mention it to his mum, and said that i thought he looked very pale, and was always rubbing his eyes as though tired. Also his face had broken out in little patches of dry skin.
Anyway he has came back today and has been really unsettled for the past hour and a half. He is sitting on my knee while i do this - sitting on my knee or being carried is the only thing that stops him - it was the only thing that worked before christmas when he was like this as well. I am making allowances for the fact that he hasn't been for over 3 weeks, his nose is still runnig thick green snot nad he has a cough, but none of my distraction techniques are working. I've been doing singing and dancing, he just stands there, crying and saying "mummy". I tried stories, he will sit on my knee but cries through the stories,I have tried playing, drawing, all the things that often work and nothing is helping. I even put him in the buggy to go for a walk and he screamed so much he was choking.
So please fellow mnders, any techniques i could try. He is calm now because he is on my knee and Dh isn't in and my 2 DS are upstairs.
This is just a recent thing that started just before Christmas, he has been coming to me every week since he was 4 months old and is now 2.