need help here... got a clingy baby

I have one to. She is a toddler though but has been clingy since birth. The absolute best advice to heed is to enjoy it. I mean, it can be a real pain in the butt to have to go pee with them on your lap or cook dinner with them on your hip but my oldest daughter is 6 and I just didn't realize how precious it was until I looked back at the fond memories. Soon enough they won't want to spend much time with you let alone let you hold them. Their little infancy and toddlerhood and preschool age just zooms by though. Give them all the attention they could ask for and they will always know where to go for help in the future when all their friends are turning away from their parents! I do wish you luck though. I find that if you go in and watch them while they are sleeping and say a little prayer, it makes it all seem ok.

While it is great that your baby is so attatched to you, I can understand the issue. My kids, all of them were very clingy babies. They alwys wanted me to hold them and didn't really like going to other people. One way I got them over it was to put them down and if they cried a little, let them. Then have someone else go pick them up to answer the cry. I think that once they knew that someone else would also comfort them, it helped them realize it was okay to not be in my arms all of the time. Going back to work and having to leave them with a babysitter, I think also helped out because they had to learn to llow someone else to hold and care for them because I had to go to work and wasn't always right there. If you work, this may help, but if not, maaybe leaving your baby with a sitter or your husband for a couple of hours while you go shopping or something by your self may help to teach your baby to trust someone else too.