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12 Mar 2024

Separation anxiety in babies

Your baby can't stand your absences? Separation anxiety normal for little ones. Here are a few things to help you understand it.

  • Separation anxiety is a normal stage of emotional development and begins when babies understand that people exist even when they are not present.
  • Toddlers may experience it as early as 6 or 7 months, but for most, it peaks between 10 and 18 months and diminishes by age 2.
  • To help your baby cope better, you can gently introduce them to other people.
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Rashida
15 Jan 2024

Postpartum Depression is no joke I suffer from separation anxiety so bad when I have to leave my son at the hospital even though I know he is in good hands it still feels awkward 😞 and his little smile just makes it worse to leave.

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hannah
21 Nov 2023

anything to help with separation anxiety, my daughter is abt to b 8 months, n im currently pregnant w my second, but anyways she’s starting to become heavy n w me being pregnant its making my stomach crampy, n anytime i put her down she starts screaming crying, n even if i let her dad, or my mom to pick her up to calm her it wont work, it has to b me holding her, i get the whole mamas girl thing, n her wanting me all the time(i mean im the one with her all day while her dad goes to work to provide for me n her), but i cant even put her down for a couple minutes to use the restroom or to even make food for me n her real quick… n she even crys if im not in her eyeview, her separation anxiety is bad n idk what to do or even where to begin to stop that

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Nique🌈🤱🏽🙏🏽
Not sure either but they get like that when another one is on the way..they sense it..gonna have to be creative with ideas to keep her busy or cope not having you if someone else holds her
21 Nov 2023

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hannah
yea im not even sure where to start, n sometimes ill try putting ms rachel on or giving her her toys to play with n it only works for like 5 mins n then shes back to crying n screaming
21 Nov 2023

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Nelly
1 Jun 2023

My 5month old cries every time I hand her over to her father.. mind you we live together sleep in the same bed together but she don't fucks with her dad lol... help what can we do for them to bond? She clearly have major separation anxiety..

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Arnetia
Can your daughter and father do skin to skin?
1 Jun 2023

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Nelly
I'll try that! Thank you
1 Jun 2023

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Alyssa
5 Feb 2023

Struggling hard I need help .. this separation anxiety from my fiance being at work all day and me staying home with the babies is killing me I'm currently only a week of postpartum and can't drive or do much of anything so I'm in bed all day and night I need help momma's anyone else struggling with this ??

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Victoria
Me /: during the week I’m home alone with my baby just waiting for my husband to come home because I miss him so bad and I’m sad when he’s not around. Here lately I haven’t been feeling the greatest until I get into bed with him and he just holds me
5 Feb 2023

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Annamae
24 Jan 2023

I GOT A JOB!!! Ill be working at a daycare as a preschool teacher! Zoey will be right down the hall from me so that should ease my anxiety; hopefully. Any advice on returning to work and dealing with the separation anxiety?

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Laurel
Oh I am doing the same thing! Also very anxious but we need to make money to take care of our babies, it’ll be great!
24 Jan 2023

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Tammy
14 Jan 2023

Just got to work, only gonna be here for 4hrs for the next week for transition since being on maternity leave. My MIL got home and I was going over everything for her while she watches my son and I didn’t even make it out of the house before I started crying😭 Being a new mom and going back to work made me realize I have separation anxiety because I am not okay😔

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Brittanie
Love you! It’ll be okay💗
14 Jan 2023

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Misty
Awww honeyyyy I feel for you but promise you'll get to see him soon 😊
14 Jan 2023

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Taneshia
11 Dec 2022

Yeah, last night my babies suffering from separation anxiety when it comes to me because I sent him over to his fathers house, which is also his father‘s parents house and you know when he was there he was having a hard time latching on to a bottle now hes home he cries all the time and he’s constantly wanted to eat n doesn’t want to be put down

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💙 Mama Lioness 💙
my son is same way with separation anxiety. when he is around anyone else. ok so at about 6 months object permanence begins. yes its a real thing. he probably doesn't understand what was going on hes in a new place with different people that arent mommy. just give him some time hold him extra and he will come down. he missed you❤️
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Felicia
10 Oct 2022

I'm a stay at home mom pregnant with my second. Every time my husband leaves for work I get separation anxiety and I don't know how to manage it I suffer from depression anxiety and PTSD and I'm scared it's a sign I'm developing pre symptoms for depression...

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Aryy (12 Weeks)💕🌎
That's why I started working again lol was going down hill especially being pregnant lol
10 Oct 2022

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Lanise
I started finding like movies n stuff or things to do around the house
10 Oct 2022

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Dana
13 May 2022

I feel like a complete failure as a mother. My daughter will be 14 weeks in 3 days. Not only will my baby not take a bottle, she has developed Separation Anxiety/Stanger Anxiety. My MIL comes over at least 3 times a week and would love to see her and smile at her. Now she cries with her or anyone she has seen before. I had to get groceries but didn’t want to take her out in the cold/rain. My MIL watched her for me and said as soon as I left she screamed herself to sleep. I regret not taking her out more now but with COVID and how cold it’s been I didn’t want to expose her. I’m anxious to bring anyone around her now and so discouraged. I feel like I have failed her.

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🕸💀⛓ Trei ⛓ 🌹🦇
Girl, stop... Separation anxiety is normal. You are her main caregiver and if she doesn't know where you are she knows she will die. Baby brain is on that cave man shit. She just knows she can not live without you, so she is scared when you leave. She trusts you and only you. You are her everything. Also a bottle is meant to simulate the boob. I don't see how it's bad for a baby to not want the fake boob when she can have the real one and connect with mom (you) more. It's biological and instinctual. Perfectly normal. Bottles didn't exist before someone made them and I'm sure those babies who never took a bottle developed just fine without them. You are not a failure as a mom. You are a regular mom with a baby doing what she is naturally wired to do and you are feeling the pressures society puts on mom to do everything by the Book of Today. Chuck that shit out the window. No two babies are alike. Follow your intuition and your daughter's natural inclinations instead. You both will be happier.
13 May 2022

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Dana
💗💗 thank you. The bottle issue is because I go back to work in a month. But I needed to hear that. I shouldn’t have to care if she doesn’t take to a person. Everyone will have to deal
13 May 2022

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Makayla
14 Feb 2022

Happy Valentine’s Day y’all🤍💖 I wish I could be happy today. But I have the strep B test today. And my boyfriend left to go to school this morning and he won’t be back til Friday 💔😭 my separation anxiety is through the roof right now I’m not used to being away from him

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Britney
Prayers for you mamma take it one day at a time
14 Feb 2022

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Makayla
Thank you and I will🤍
14 Feb 2022

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