Stranger Anxiety
Recently my 5-month-old niece has started to display stranger anxiety. I usually see her a couple times a month but last week when my brother and sister-in-law came over for dinner my niece would have nothing to do with me. Normally she will reach for me and let me hold her, but this past weekend every time anyone tried to hold her she would start to cry. She only wanted to be held by her mom and dad. This stranger anxiety developed in week. The previous weekend my niece was at the house and she was perfectly fine with everyone holding her. My sister-in-law said she started crying when someone else would hold her the following day and it has continued ever since. It amazed me how fast this change in development occurred. It literally happened overnight that she started having stranger anxiety. It just another example of how quickly babies can change during their first year of life I hope as quickly as this developed that she outgrows it just as quickly. I love snuggling up with her and don’t want to have to spend Christmas just looking at her.
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