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I haven't really updated much in this journal, but I'm desperate for..something. (advise, pat on the back, just an "it's ok..")
My daughter Hannah has been clingy since birth, with me, and me only.
She's is breastfed(and I'm getting a lot of flack about it, seeing as she'll be 11months next month) but this also means that no one has ever fed her anything(other than the OCCASIONAL bowl of cereal). She refuses bottles, so it's been just me for nearly a year.
I am a stay at home mom, I spend each and every day with her. We go places, to drop in centres to play, to the library, to church(usually 2-3 times a week, where she is in the nursery), normal shopping, etc.
But, as I said..clingy. She will go to her daddy, now that she is getting older and understands better, I suppose, but as an example..today I had obedience with our puppy. A friend from our church took Hannah with her to pick up her sons at school and then met me back at my class(45minutes from when she left to when she got back) She had cried so hard in that short amount of time that she has broken blood vessels on her cheeks.
I feel horrible, and of course, my friend is saying "you need to go out more, leave her so she gets more used to strangers" but I am feeling torn. Who cares if she's clingy? Or am I inviting future problems by not pushing her a little harder to adapt to new people/surroundings?
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My daughter Hannah has been clingy since birth, with me, and me only.
She's is breastfed(and I'm getting a lot of flack about it, seeing as she'll be 11months next month) but this also means that no one has ever fed her anything(other than the OCCASIONAL bowl of cereal). She refuses bottles, so it's been just me for nearly a year.
I am a stay at home mom, I spend each and every day with her. We go places, to drop in centres to play, to the library, to church(usually 2-3 times a week, where she is in the nursery), normal shopping, etc.
But, as I said..clingy. She will go to her daddy, now that she is getting older and understands better, I suppose, but as an example..today I had obedience with our puppy. A friend from our church took Hannah with her to pick up her sons at school and then met me back at my class(45minutes from when she left to when she got back) She had cried so hard in that short amount of time that she has broken blood vessels on her cheeks.
I feel horrible, and of course, my friend is saying "you need to go out more, leave her so she gets more used to strangers" but I am feeling torn. Who cares if she's clingy? Or am I inviting future problems by not pushing her a little harder to adapt to new people/surroundings?
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