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How to curb baby clinginess

Separation anxiety can be stressful for you and your baby. Check out our dos and don'ts to help you break the barrier

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Posted: 14 September 2012
by Emma Daly

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"If you baby's happily engaged with a toy, leave the room but keep singing or talking so he knows you're close by. And if he crawls after a toy, don't follow, so he'll learn he's safe even though you're not beside him," says Elizabeth Pantley, author of The No-Cry Separation Anxiety Solution.

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