Yep that's what it's called, and my 10 month old grand-child is suffering from this and my 25 yrs old daughter thinks she's done something wrong as a mum because she can't leave babe with any one without babe getting upset.

Now to me she's just a clingy babe totally focussed on mum but to my daughter she now has a 'label'.
Why do the 'professionals' give the ordinary such titles and frighten the general pulic?

Sounds quite normal too me at that age. Poor daughter feeling she hads done wrong when all she has is alovely normal baby who loves her mum. Baby will get over it as she grows up its just another one of many of thoose phases which are fine when you arnt living themi

Perfectly normal at that age for them to cling to the main care giver. Give her a few months and she will grow out of it.

very normal,both my littles ones went through it,it pulls on your heart strings,they grow out of it,i did do the leave for a couple of minutes then return buisness,not sure if it worked but both my scrumptious little princesses are fine now !

My middle son was like this (unlabelled by pro's).
He remained the same from babyhood through school, I used to dread the end of school holidays.
I learned very early on to be prepared for what would come. It wasn't just school it was all things new to him.

At just 10 months it is possible that it is a personality trait, as it was with my son.
I believe the clingy stranger shy stage is quite a bit younger.

Karen  :)

eta; He is now a lovely well  rounded adult who is probably a bit shy.

> Sounds quite normal too me at that age. Poor daughter feeling she hads done wrong when all she has is alovely normal baby who loves her mum.

Hard few days at work so I'm late in replying :(

I told my girl exactly that, but these days the pro's seem to want to give a tag to everything.

My middle child was a clingy one, taking him to strange places upset him and starting what was then called playgroup was very very upsetting. He's now the life and sole of a situation and to be honest at times I wish he shut up :)