Help please - Clingy 16month old

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My 16 month old DD is super clingy at the minute. I can't even go to the loo without her screaming. If i walk out of the room she follows me clinging onto my legs, she's awake at the crack of dawn to make sure i am still there (and doesn't go back to sleep). She won't even go to daddy and will continue to scream for me until i come back and pick her up and give her a cuddle. For the past few days she will no longer sit in her high chair for meals, she goes realy stiff so you can't get her to sit down and screams the pace down.

Please tell me this is just a stage as it's starting to get my partner down as she won't go to him even though she loves her daddy, and it's starting to wear me down as well.

Any advice welcome

It's a stage. :) I remember trying to stuff DS about that age into a snow-suit as he protested about going to the CM... again. It was like trying to parcel a cat.

Oh yes this too. I tell her in the morning that mummy is going to work and she is staying with daddy/nannan. ' yes, yes, yes' she says, fastforward ten minutes to me trying to walk out the door with a screaming banshee attached to my leg.

Please tell me it's a short phase or am i destined to this daily for another year. In fact don't tell me i'm afraid of the answer

I think it's short but I found it came back again from time to time. Try not to let it upset you because I think that makes it worse all round. Big smiles at your screaming banshee as you unpeel her from your leg.

No advice I'm sorry as I'm struggling with the same from 14mo dd here. It's compounded by her just not sleeping much in the day as well -
one 20 minute nap if I'm lucky and that's either on me or in the car/sling on the way somewhere. It is really wearing, I have to steel myself to keep the same rules as usual (saying 'no' results in a writhing on the floor inconsolable meltdown) and it feels like a vicious circle because the grumpier she is the grumpier I get. I don't know if she understands but somehow it makes me feel better to tell her that I'm feeling grumpy and short-tempered too when it really gets to me. Frequent snacks, fresh air and oodles of attention and cuddles seems to be the only things that help sometimes. I think my dd has been suffering a bit with teething too lately.

Could it be this DS is exactly this way and reading this website and the book help me be a bit more patient and understanding.

Hope it gets better soon :)

www.thewonderweeks.com/index.php/about-the-wonder-weeks/your-babys-10-leaps/mental-leap-10

You are not alone my ds 16 months is exactly the same. Driving me mad!!!! Hope this phase passes soon.