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G/C from December - how clingy at 10mths?

Hi there, my LO Hugo is coming up to 8 months old and in 2 months time I'm going back to work and he is going in to nursery. Until Christmas I'll be going back part time, then full time from January onwards.

Hugo has always been quite clingy with me and gets upset if someone else is holding him when he can see me. He seems to do better if I'm not around but he will still cry and get upset until I'm holding him again at which point he will look at whoever he had been with and smile and laugh! He even does that with my husband!

So I'm getting a bit anxious about putting him in to nursery. The pragmatic side of me knows that ulitmately he will benefit from socialising with other babies and getting used to having other carers other than me, but I am still a bit worried about it and I hate thinking of him crying his eyes out looking for me and me not being there image

I know that separation anxiety sets in around 9/10 months and as he's already got a fairly good dose of this now at 8 months, I'm wondering how much worse it's going to get. So for all you ladies with 19/10 month old babies, have you noticed an increase in clingyness? Would you say they were more clingy than when they were 7/8 months?

Thanks!

Peeptoe and Hugo (8 months)

**also posted in September**
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