Hiya,

I'm an AP parent of a 13 week old baby and go to the gym 2-3 x per week, while DH minds the baby. She is usually crying by the time I get home. As soon as I take her from DH when I get home, she stops crying. She's not necessarily hungry, sometimes she has a suckle to calm down & go to sleep, but not really a big feed. I always feed her last thing before I go.

Tonight DH told me that she actually cries nearly the whole time I'm gone , which broke my heart (grrrr @ DH - he thought he was being supportive by giving me some time out of the house, but he also knows my parenting convictions, no.1 being DO NOT LET THE BABY CRY ).

Anyway, I won't be going again, will have to work out some other way to get some exercise done, but my question is, is this normal???? I'm gone about 1 hour 15 mins max. And do you think these times of seperation from mumma and crying will have adversely affected her attachment/sense of security??

Would love to hear from some other AP mummas.