Comments | attachedparents: My baby only wants me to hold her!

darkalice13 in attachedparents

My baby only wants me to hold her!

Jun 30, 2009 09:53

I am new mom to an 11week old daughter. Since she has been born I have pretty much carried her (in my arms or a sling carrier) most of the time. I also had not planned to co-sleep but it has been what felt right since she came home from the hospital. Recently she wants nothing to do with anyone but myself. Family comes over and wants to hold her ( Read more... )

behavior: infants

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uppity_heathen June 30 2009, 17:35:44 UTC

My daughter was like this at that age, too. Now at 8 months she's just choosy. She likes some people and others scare her if they grab her up too soon. He needs to understand she's a baby and she needs whatever or whoever comforts her. She will constantly change.

mokie_sassafras June 30 2009, 17:52:07 UTC

You're totally doing the right thing. You're her comfort zone, she needs you, she'll be independent soon enough.

amberskyfire June 30 2009, 19:16:51 UTC

You are exactly right. What might help your family and her father is to know that your daughter is also exactly right - naturally speaking ( ... )

it's hard but so worth it. cookiemommy June 30 2009, 21:57:13 UTC

i go through both sides of this situation MULTIPLE times a day. i am struggling with both what you're going through AND what he's going through. i'm dating my best friend of five years and her two daughters are now my daughters, but i didn't start parenting them until they were one and three (now 2.5 and 4.5) and the little one is SOOOO attached to bio mom from LIVING in a sling and go-sleeping until september 2007, right before she turned two, and is still sort of co-sleeping. It's what was right for her, it's what has built this unbelievably unbreakeable spirit she has. BUT the downside is that when she's really upset or really tired or just in general sometimes, she has NO interested in me whatsoever. It really really hurts to know all the work i put into raising this child (i was basically full time sahm for almost a year, up until a couple of months ago). It hurts every time i try to get up with her in the middle of the night and she screams at me that she doesn't want me, even when i know she'd take me were bio mom not ( ... )

mockingbirdq June 30 2009, 22:11:48 UTC

Mine was a "scream until he vomits everywhere" if I put him down more than a few minutes, so I know where you are coming from. He did this from about 2-5 months, then suddenly other people were great and funnier than Mommy, except when he wanted to eat ( ... )