Anyone's LO afraid of the hair dryer or vacuum??

Re: Anyone's LO afraid of the hair dryer or vacuum??

• dbertagni

  July 2010

  We had that issue with the  vacuum, but thankfully she has started to be ok with it. It just took time, and I let her play with it, she could touch it, and I had her help me vacuum. She still gets upset when she sees me taking it out but then she is ok.
  

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• mrsNnearly

  July 2010

  My DS is afraid of both too. It's weird b/c when he was younger he loved the vacuum. I could vacuum right around him on his playmat and he didn't care. But now it really bothers him, even the toy vacuums at daycare freak him out. I hope he'll get over it at some point. I think it is pretty normal!

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• Heels.Fan03

  July 2010

  The vacuum never seemed to bother DS until this weekend. Previously, I could vacuum all around him and it didn't phase him, but this weekend when I was vacuuming the room he was in, he was definitely afraid of it. I tried to make a game out of it so he would think it was something fun and not something just loud and scary.

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• slhall730 member

  July 2010

  Neither one! But that is probably bc I was the crazy mom that dried her tushy with a blow dryer since day one.

   

  She seems to like the vacuum as well.  Maybe it is just loud noises in general that bother her?

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• kristabela

  July 2010

  She never minded it as a baby but it seemed to have started around one.  I'm sure it's normal and I try to get her to "play" with it but she won't even go near it.  If she even see's it out she won't go into the room that it's in.  I might try to get her a toy vacuum to see if that helps.  Wish me luck

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