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Baby upset with family

Help I'm really struggling. My 8 month old gets very upset when we see family and it results in a lot of comments which upsets me as I feel she's judged unfairly. She's brilliant with her swim teacher, at nursery, play groups etc, to the point we get strangers come up to us because she's so smiley towards them. Please tell me I'm not alone as I can't bear another "we don't see her enough" comment.

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My LO screams at anyone that isn't me, her dad or her sister. Literally, even just looking at them, she will scream and cry until I turn her around 😂😂 your definitely not alone! X

My lb is exactly the same! I’m stock of the comments from family about it.

@Hannah it's so frustrating isn't it?!

Yep! Like what do you want me to do about it? He’s his own person and is learning about the world! Like give me a break! I won’t force him to go to people either which they don’t like

My little girl was the same, she would literally scream! It was very upsetting for her and me. I agree that the more they see different people the better. Also we used to tell people to ignore her completely for about 20 mins to get her used to the new situation. She would gradually warm up to new people and places. They might be a bit young now but when they are older we just used to go out for a couple of hours and once we'd left they'd say she calmed down quickly and was fine. She was just really clingy and crying when we were there too! They do get better as they get older. She's 3 1/2 now and very friendly

They just have phases. My daughter decided she didn't like my mum for a few weeks and kept crying every time she interacted with her... She's always seen her about once a week and my mum is amazing with children (her job is actually working with children who are having a hard time.) my daughter grew out of it and I apologised to my mum a couple of times and her answer was 'dont be silly, she's a baby, I'm a bit long in the tooth to be offended because she doesn't like my vibe right now' and she's absolutely right. They basically need to get over it and understand that she is a baby, she doesn't quite get everything yet, she's new here.. if they decide to be offended then it really is their problem x

Plus on a completely different note, it must be weird being a baby and people just trying to touch you and get in your face all the time.. imagine if we did that as adults 🤣

@Sophie that's what I think half the issue is 😂

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