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For those with toddlers.........
Anyone else's LO getting super clingy the closer you get to your due date? I don't know how DD would get the concept of when the baby is coming, I keep telling her a few weeks whenever she asks. It just seems like now in the home stretch she is super clingy and co-dependent. She is 3 and has always been good as far as playing on her own sometimes. The past couple weeks she follows me, won't play anything without me, if I sit somewhere else on couch wants me to sit with her instead. I must her mommy mommy a million times a day and freaks if I tell her to wait a minute so I can finish cooking, washing my hands, anything. She won't even go to bed without a fight and then still ends up on top of me in my bed. Does she sense the baby is coming soon? Anyone else's LO acting like this? I am exhausted from getting up a million times a night with her . Even just trying. To type this she is just standing here...gonna play now? Gonna play now? Over and over. I feel horrible and guilty for feeling this way but it's driving me a little nuts. I hav so much to get ready for the new baby and I feel like I cannot get anything done because I am just constantly responding to her wanting me or wanting me to do this and that? What do I do? I will in now way be able to constantly cater to her when a newborn is here. What do I do?
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Re: For those with toddlers.........
my ds is only 18 months but he was a mummys boy till about a month ago now everything is dada dada, he will come to me and snuggle when dad is not around and will pull up top and give baby belly kisses and talk to it but as soon as dad is back we dont exist any more
DH has been working a lot of overtime, so I don't know if that is part of the problem too.....
I SAHM and we nursed for 21 months, so she has always sort of been a momma's girl. But never had issues with DH taking care of her. But now, she insists that I do EVERYTHING. Even silly things like putting on high chair tray, putting on her socks, fixing a toy, etc.
She is 2 and totally gets the baby is coming, she tells me each day "Baby sister coming soon." So I'm not sure if that's it, or if it's just part of her controlling nature (we started the "I do it myself" and the bossy stage recently). I would try not to beat yourself up when it drives you nuts. I feel the same way with DD, it's hard to have no down time, and your brain is already kicking into gear knowing that in a few weeks it will have NO downtime :-)
Thanks;) glad to know I'm not alone. I will get annoyed and then she says "you're my best friend" and I feel guilty for getting annoyed.
Thanks;) glad to know I'm not alone. I will get annoyed and then she says "you're my best friend" and I feel guilty for getting annoyed.
DD turned 3 in August. The clinging and sleep issues are new but the little bossy, know it all attitude and the lack of listening started almost right around her birthday. Pretty much every mom I talke to said 3 is wayyyyy worse than 2. I ad though I lucked out because she really didn't do anything as far as antrums when she was 2
I guess I just have to remember she will get over it eventually....
My DS doesn't do well with change... never has, and it scares the sh!t out of me. Between getting over being sick, the baby coming and I think his molars are starting to move around (he teethes VERY slow, I'm sure they'll be here by his 3rd b-day) I don't know what to do for him when.
He's on abx that he keeps spitting out at me. I'm going to search for some chewable tylenol/motrin for him today so that maybe I can get something in him for his teeth. He wakes up at all times of the night and only wants ME so as if my sleep wasn't interupted enough... right now at 6am his walking around whining and sporadically throwing a tantrum b/c he's tired but won't go back to bed.
Fun times...