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May 2011 Moms
baby suddenly needs to be around me and only me
charlotte gets only breast milk but i do pump so others can give her a bottle if needed. she has been doing fine until the last week or so and now fusses really bed if anyone but me tries to feed her. usually i pump while my husband does the bedtime stuff and gets her that bottle, and now i have to feed her too. .
its not that i do not want to feed my daughter and its not that she just will not take a bottle but i need to figure out what is going on because she goes to day care starting in three weeks. i have gone back to work part time and she will kind of take a bottle for dh when he is home with her but she is really fussy about it.
also she now does not sleep between three and nine or ten pm. i have tried everything to get her to sleep because she gets so cranky and just cries and cries. nothing works. dh and i both have just had to set her down and walk away for a few minutes to keep our sanity.
i did start back to work about two weeks ago so i am thinking they could be connected, but babies this young cant get separation anxiety can they. any help or recommendation would be very helpful, or to at least know i am not the only one going throught this and its normal. if we are still dealing with this next week at her two month appt i am also going to ask the pediatrician too.
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Re: baby suddenly needs to be around me and only me
There is something called reverse cycling, where when you separate from your infant, they won't eat until you return. ie; your baby usually ate normally during the day, but now that you are gone, they wait for you to return and eat and eat and eat while you are in their presence.
Good luck. I went through the same thing with my DS.
Also, growth spurt?? I'd keep feeding her, and try moreso during those evening hours. She may want to nurse more often for comfort or for hunger??