Hi,
My friend has a 2 yr 4 mo old dd who has been really acting out since her brother was born six weeks ago. She has tantrums all the time, and clings to her mother and cries for up to a hour at a time. Even when the mother does activities with her like a toddler gym class, the dd sometimes cries and tantrums thoughout the whole class because the baby is in the same room.
Today, my friend said her dd refused to eat lunch and wanted to go to bed, so she took her to bed and read her a couple of stories and left. When she checked on dd a few minutes later, she heard her crying, so she went in to see her. The dd told her to go away, so my friend did, but kept checking on her by listening to the door. She said her dd cried for another half hour until she fell asleep.
Does anyone have any advice? Obviously this is stressing the entire family out on multiple levels.
Thanks
My friend has a 2 yr 4 mo old dd who has been really acting out since her brother was born six weeks ago. She has tantrums all the time, and clings to her mother and cries for up to a hour at a time. Even when the mother does activities with her like a toddler gym class, the dd sometimes cries and tantrums thoughout the whole class because the baby is in the same room.
Today, my friend said her dd refused to eat lunch and wanted to go to bed, so she took her to bed and read her a couple of stories and left. When she checked on dd a few minutes later, she heard her crying, so she went in to see her. The dd told her to go away, so my friend did, but kept checking on her by listening to the door. She said her dd cried for another half hour until she fell asleep.
Does anyone have any advice? Obviously this is stressing the entire family out on multiple levels.
Thanks
DH took over bedtime, diaper changes, dinner clean up, everything. We called it divide and conquer. Of course, DS had practice with daddy being a caretaker as I was sick ("morning" sickness) for 8 months and would go to bed as soon as DH got home from work. Basically I got DS attatched more to DH before DD was born. Unintentionally, as I didn't expect to be on meds for my vomiting.
