https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:26:35 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-a-mamas-boy-what-to-do#post-1285249 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:40:31 +0000 ZombieBullfrogHoller 1285249@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaJ: Makes sense. Oy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-a-mamas-boy-what-to-do#post-1285137 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:19:40 +0000 MamaJ 1285137@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ZombieBullfrogHoller: yeah I think they realize that mom can leave or something. I stay at home except for those two nights a week. Sometimes a bath would help DS be calm because he liked the bath but if he was awake he would be crying :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-a-mamas-boy-what-to-do#post-1285123 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:12:06 +0000 ZombieBullfrogHoller 1285123@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Apparently FIL just stopped over (he lives a good bit away so LO doesn't see him often) and as soon as he picked up LO he began crying hysterically. lol. He didn't cry for Santa, but is apparently not thrilled with his grandfather @_@ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-a-mamas-boy-what-to-do#post-1285102 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:53:14 +0000 ZombieBullfrogHoller 1285102@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaJ: Ugh, I work 8 hour shifts and it's been a more recent thing, I've noticed. Like, he might be a little more fussy, but it's tenfold the last couple weeks. When my husband would say "he's been crying the entire time" I thought he was just exaggerating, you know? But, today he was like, "No...when he isn't napping he's crying. The whole.time." And yeah, tonight he called me saying he wouldn't take a bottle at all. And, LO has been known to bottle strike every now and again, but he always just refuses it and sleeps then makes up for it with MOTN feedings. :| I never thought about separation anxiety being a thing - is that common? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-a-mamas-boy-what-to-do#post-1285096 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:49:26 +0000 MamaJ 1285096@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I work two nights per week and went back when LO was 5 weeks. Around the same age he had pretty bad seperation anxiety and would cry the entire 3-4 hours I was gone. I would come home and DH would tell me he cried to entire time and sometimes wouldn't take a bottle. He eventually just grew out of it... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-a-mamas-boy-what-to-do#post-1285091 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:46:21 +0000 ZombieBullfrogHoller 1285091@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Two months, two weeks, and a day. :S </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-a-mamas-boy-what-to-do#post-1285086 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:44:36 +0000 Mrs. Blue 1285086@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How long have you been back at work? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/babys-a-mamas-boy-what-to-do#post-1285079 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:39:45 +0000 ZombieBullfrogHoller 1285079@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is 4 months old and I'm working part time. DH works third shift, so he's with his dad during my 3-11pm shift. Problem is, he often gets inconsolable when I'm gone. If he gets fussy while I'm there, I can always get him to calm down or distract him or if he's just overly tired get him to sleep. We do a lot of comfort nursing and nursing to sleep, but not every time, and I think he wants that when I'm not there, but y'know...</p> <p>I'm absolutely struggling with being back at work still. Like it's an everyday battle to talk myself into leaving and not quitting because we will be homeless if I do, lol. And so when DH calls me and LO is hysterical in the background or he talks about how "he's been crying since you left" I can hardly bear it. He does all the same things to comfort him plus other things and they just don't work. And here I sit at work crying because I know my baby is home miserable when I could just pick him up and stop it if I were home and my poor husband who has barely slept at all after getting off of work in the morning is miserable, too. Like he seriously will be bawling and bawling and the moment I walk in the door and he sees me, he's as right as rain. :|</p> <p>Any advice on what to tell him to do? At this point LO just gets hysterical to the point of cry-it-out and falling asleep after awhile.</p> <p>ETA: Thought I'd change the OP title. </p>