Hi!
We moved house on 28th March - so about 10 days ago now and (understandably!) our 20 month old son is very unsettled and clingy at the moment. He's never ben a clingy baby and has always been a good sleeper so it's a bit of a shock to the system to be getting up every hour or so in the night to settle a grumpy boy!
We moved house because where we lived previously, DS had to stay in our room with us as we didn't have a spare (we didn't expect the sale of our house to take over 2 years so thought we would be all sorted by the time he arrived - naive or what!). We have kept him in our room in the new house, everything set out exactly the same until he's settled enough to make the transition in to his own room for the first time. He's very clingy throughout the day, has decided he doesn't want to feed himself and only Mummy can do it for him and he wants lots and lots of cuddles - which we are more than happy to give and we are spending lots of time giving him lots of extra love and reassurance. I am also trying to keep him in his normal routine (Nursery Monday & Wednesday mornings, Grandparents Tuesday and Thursday mornings and afternoons with Mummy after I finish work and then we have Fridays together and go to swimming lessons - which is what we have always done).
I had spoken to nursery about us moving house and had prewarned them he may be a little unsettled and need some reassurance and just asked them to let me know if he seemed unusually quiet or not quite himself while he was there. However, on his Wednesday morning session at nursery last week, they decided to move him in to a different room with the 2 - 3 year olds as the room he was in was filling up and they said he's ready for moving up anyway. Now, any other time I would have been happy for them to do this but with him already been unsettled due to moving, I think this may have been a bridge too far for him. They said he was fine, settled in to the new room ok and was no different to how he usually behaves, but ever since they moved him, he has come out in a rash (like eczema) all over his neck, chest and back and is scratching himself to the point of making his skin bleed. I have been advised that the rash has appeared through stress
and that it will get better once he gets used to the changes happening at the moment.
Has anyone else gone through anything similar and if so; is there anything else I can do that I'm not doing to try and help DS to feel more at home and reassured?? We spend alot of time talking to him about things and giving him extra love and cuddles and we obviously appreciate that it will take time for him to settle in, it's just so upsetting to see him feeling so insecure! xxx