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Any ideas for separation anxiety?

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DS is 6 months and the new nanny started yesterday. He was cranky with DH and her yesterday but today with me home, he's being impossible. Won't stop crying without me, won't eat without me, won't sleep without me.

 DH is home two days a week and he is fine with him. He was ok with the old nanny but she started when he was 4 months and he wasn't doing this then.

I don't know what to do and I'm really concerned about next week when he'll be alone with her.

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Re: Any ideas for separation anxiety?

  • EmmieBEmmieB member

    you have to muscle through it. it SUCKS. sucks. I have a son who screams if I move two inches away from him sometimes (there is generally an underlying reason: not enough sleep, teething pain, traveling, etc) and we talked to our pedi and the answer was what I expected, having been on the nanny side of things before: go anyway.

    As long as the environment is safe and there's not anything she actually *needs* (aside from you) walk away anyway.  She has to learn that you always come back.

    We went to Maine for a wedding last weekend and took my sister up because I was in the wedding and it was a child-free event. She lives in Texas so before that she'd only ever watched him if  while I showered during her visit. The first night he kept seeing me, and would melt down, but the day of the wedding I was away from him for the better part of 12 hours and the only time he got bad was right before a nap and then at the end of the night when she was out of bottles.

    so it will suck at first, but it gets better. She needs to learn, and find a new rhythm with the new nanny.

    Good luck! 

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