Any advice on gettin a 4 and a half month old to be comfortable with other people?

Hi, my baby doesn't seem to like been around anyone unless i'm there too. Any time I leave him with his grandparent's he cries after about 20 min's and doesn't stop till I get back, he'll stay with his daddy until it's bed time then cries till I put him to sleep... How can I get him out of this?Any advice on gettin a 4 and a half month old to be comfortable with other people?
Let him grow up some. It's normal for an infant only to want their mother, and perhaps really how it should be as well. Right now nothing you do will help, he doesn't understand object permanence or time just that something is missing (you). In half a year it should be much better.Any advice on gettin a 4 and a half month old to be comfortable with other people?
That's totally normal. Nature has designed the baby to go everywhere with the Mum until he is ready to separate. Anyone who tells you that their baby would ';go to anyone'; is being economical with the truth ( they may ';go'; to anyone but they will not happily stay with them.. Babies are a huge time investment for mothers, but allowing him the security of your presence at this time will make him less, not more dependent on you later. He will not be clingy later because his needs were met appropriately at the appropriate time. Later he will have different needs and will be happy to have many of them met by others.
He is biologically engineered to NEED to be with you. Anthropologically speaking, mothers ensure the survival of babies, and babies know this. Of course he doesn't want anyone else.


Try re-inforcing any positive experiences. Don't leave him so long that he cries. Take him back before he starts to cry. If you know that's at the 20 minute mark, get him at 15 minutes.


A need that is filled, will self-extinguish. He needs you. Keep filling his need, and when he's biologically ready to be with other people, he will have no trouble. Right now, you're reinforcing a negative experience, and he's not getting his need met. So, the need will continue, and get even more intense. If you continue this, he might seem to get 'over it' but he's probably withdrawing because he can't trust you to come rescue him and ensure his survival. He's only 4 months, there will be plenty of time later for others to look after him :)
oh he will..my daughter woukld cry ne time ne one else except me or dad had her, she is 6 moonths now and getting much better. she would be held by my mum, look at me an burst into tears, grandp's need to try to entertain him, take him in garden and look at flowers or go for a walk, my daughter was usually okay when on the move,
you need to socialize more with your baby and the other people while your there. Even if its for coffee for a hour, all your baby knows is you, so of course shes going to miss you, just keep working on it, I'm sure he'll calm down a bunch as he gets older.
he's a mummy's boy!!! my little boy is 7 months he was the same, he loves people now and always has a smile for every 1, and loves his dad more now... don't feel bad, but maybe just step back a bit more,
You just have to wait. He will come out of it himself...babies are naturally attached to their main caregivers.