My son has just turned 15 months old. He is a very affectionate and sensitive boy, and still loves breastfeeding. I went back to work when he was 1, and he started a childminder the month after. His settling in has taken a good while, and he's had a very difficult week this week according to the childminder, seeming very up and down, hard to settle, and wanting to be held all the time. She's lovely and very professional but she's says he's concerned that his weeks are still up and down a few months in. He has really taken to walking in the last month, but it does seem to have affected his sleep, as well as his sense of autonomy. My husband gets up with him in the morning, to let me have a bit more sleep (his sleep is still pretty erratic) and he says he is very clingy with him and doesn't want him to leave the room. His naps have also been a lot shorter the last couple of weeks. I'm wondering if this is separation anxiety, and if so, what I can do to ease it. I don't really notice him being anxious about separation but I think that's because I am super attentive to him when I'm with him! I'm wondering if I need to be practicing leaving him alone (obviously for a minute or so) more deliberately and often to get him used to not being with me? Any advice welcome.