I'm not really sure what I'm asking here (apart from for help!) so please bear with me...We have a one year old who's very active (walking, running, trying to climb) but doesn't speak yet. In the UK he has his own room and usually wakes a couple of times a night but is easily settled. We travel to Italy to see relatives quite frequently, each visit is about a month long and we stay in a flat we own where he does not have his own bedroom. We're there now, this is the 3rd time he's been but he seems much more disturbed by the change of scene than he was before. He loves meeting new people and will happily go off with his granddad who he rarely sees, but if it's just me and him in the room he often wants to be picked up, then cries and fidgets to be put down, and straight away cries to be picked up again. He also (this is the killer :-() has started waking several times in the night and being very difficult to settle. AND, whereas when we were in the UK he was happy to be settled in the night by his dad, he now won't be settled by anyone but me - so I am doing all the getting up at night. He usually has an epic nap in the afternoons which makes it easier but today he hasn't even had that. It's been a full day of pick-me-up-put-me-down-no-pick-me-up-again-now walk around carrying me for hours and hours or I'll howl. Hence this post :)
Do you think his clinginess and frequent waking is all down to the new location, or is it just his age? Is there anything I can do about it? Anyone experienced something similar? thx! :)
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Travelling for extended period with one year old - sleeping/ attachment problems? what to do?
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minitoot · 16/06/2013 19:21
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