Especially when babies go through
phases of separation anxiety, all they want to do is hold onto your leg for dear life.
As your baby grows older (and even well into the toddler years) they will go through
phases of separation anxiety.
From about 8 months, babies often go through
a phase of separation anxiety as they grapple with the concept that if you're not there, it means you've gone!
Not exact matches
Even if her behavior is not the stereotypical 8 - month - baby -
separation -
anxiety -
phase, and she simply wants me all
of the time, that's perfectly fine with me.
While
separation anxiety is a
phase all children will experience at some point in their early lives, there are some rare instances in which the
anxiety is more severe and the child does not grow out
of it at a normal rate.
Even infants who naturally sleep through early tend to go through
phases of increased wakings with teething,
separation anxiety, etc. [3].
From the newborn
phase till the bouts
of separation anxiety and teething, there will be many
phases that you feel you can't get anything done just because you are holding and comforting the baby the whole day.
We never went through
phases of insecurity or
separation anxiety which was a pleasant surprise.
For instance, during the peak
of my son's particularly intense, but completely normal baby
separation anxiety phase, a typical piece
of parenting advice I encountered time and time again was: «Your child is too dependent on you.