Too Young?

[Brittny27]

Kaelynn has started to scream and cry when I leave the room. She just turned 5 months on Sunday. It's usually only when I'm home alone with her. If someone is holding her she's fine. She also cry's sometimes if I leave the room and she's with her dad. At her 4 month apointment she started crying when the Dr touched her and she said it was to early for stranger/separation anxiety.  She was fine with the nurse though. I think she may have had cold hands.

It's hard to get things done around the house. I have an ergo carrier which I use daily but sometimes it's hard to do things with her attached to me.  

Anyone else running into this problem so early?

[LosingMyMindInGA]

I dont' so much think it's seperation anxiety.  She's just used to Mommy and is learning to distinguish who strangers are.  lily is the same way.  I can lay her down and start to walk away and she tunes up and screams.  She does it when her sister puts her down too.  

[mommy1207]

It sounds like she is just used to being with Mommy. My son did this when he was a baby, I'm a stay at home mom so he was used to it being me and him all the time. I put him in his bouncy chair. He hated a swing, so I used his bouncy seat, or put toys in his playpen or let him snack in his highchair, depending where I was in the house. Sometimes that didn't work, but if he could see me, he was generally ok!

[jschoch8]

I don't have this problem really yet, but you can tell she prefers me to others. This is normal to start at 5 months.