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Seperation Anxiety
Any tips on how to help Lily w/ this? My mom is here (thankfully) and I have the flu, so I am trying to rest and sleep more, and I need to do my breathing treatments + airway clearance three times a day. Which means not a lot of time playing with Lily, and she flips out every time I hand her over to my mom and cries and stares at me. It doesn't help that she hasn't been sleeping well lately. It also doesn't help that my mom can't get on the floor and play with her - she holds her a lot or puts a few toy on the couch, brings her outside in the swing, or takes her for a 20 minute walk, but mostly DD whines and looks at me, so I end up getting up and playing with her instead of resting.
Re: Seperation Anxiety
What helped us was having a clear "leaving routine"... every time we leave the boys its the same words and actions, "I will see you after school" hug, kiss and leave, no turning back... it was pretty rough right around Lily's age for the boys but it got better...
I think the no turning back is what is important, even if she whines and cries, its important that she can see you leaving and then you just leave...
also we would leave for like 5 minutes and then come back so the boys would know we would return
See, I think you hit the nail on the head - I'm in the same room. I'll have to fix that!
Thanks for the tip on establishing a routine as well. I'm definitely going to do that.
I agree, once you're out of the room, I bet she'll be fine. Marcus had phases that come and go, but he's always fine once I'm gone. He'll cry in the morning when I'm leaving, but once the door is shut, I can hear through the door that he'll stop and go play.