We're dealing with this big time! My youngest cries every time we leave the room. I think if he could crawl he would be following me from room to room.

Has anyone else dealt with separation anxiety with their little ones? How did you deal with it?

My solution right now is to hold him and carry him around all the time -- I'm getting a great arm workout from it

We went through it with big A when he was around 8 months, and then again around age 2 years. Each episode with him lasted about 4 months, sorry to say. With middle A, it happened around age 1 year, for about two months. He's now 15 months and seems much better. With baby A, who is 8 months, we haven't had it happen yet, but the clock's a tickin' and I feel it comin'!

I don't know of a whole lot a parent can do, other than play a lot of hide-and-seek and peek-a-boo while at home with the child, to illustrate to them that just because mommy and daddy are gone, doesn't mean they won't come back. Try that, and then leaving something of yourself (a hanky, a plastic cup, some seemingly odd object that baby might identify with the sight or feel or smell of YOU) for baby to "take care of" or "hold onto for you" while you're gone...with ours we used an old, raggedy Jimmy Buffett T-shirt that hubby always wore, and then sprayed just a tiny bit of hubby/daddy's cologne on it so the boys would feel safe with that while we're gone.