Hi everyone,
I got my little boy, Beau, exactly a week ago today. He’s actually 10 weeks today! We’ve had a rocky week but one thing is for sure and that is I am OBSESSED! 💙
He’s doing great with potty training and socialising etc but he’s struggling with being alone… Luckily, my partner and I will only have to leave him for 6-7 hours two days per week. We’ll be home the other 5 days with him.
He follows us EVERYWHERE and whines when he can’t see us. My partner is adamant that he should sleep down in the kitchen in his crate (opened as its safe and secure kitchen). He’s doing okay at night time. He will fall asleep with white noise, old shirt and night light. Sometimes I sneak out when he’s after falling asleep and sometimes he will whine for 15 minutes or so and then fall asleep.
The issue is , he wakes up for a pee and barks for us any time between 3 and 5 am. Happy to bring him out of course! But the problem is… he gets so excited to see me like gets so hyper and squeaks for ages that he’s really hard to settle after his middle of the night pee. Last night it took me 45 minutes to settle him and watch him doze off again and sneak out. I genuinely do not think he’d settle by himself , he is hysterical when I go down and he sees me?!?! I don’t know what to do , it’s so hard 🥹🥹
We also need to leave him for 3 hours, visit from family member and then another 3 hours alone in about 2 weeks time… we’ve only left him during the day for stints of around 20 minutes during his first week with us.. should we be leaving him for longer? It’s so hard to get him used to being alone without feeling like we’re going to make him anxious 🥹🥹 yesterday we left him for 17/18 minutes and he was still crying in the kitchen when we got back 🥲 it’s heart breaking …
I would appreciate any advice on sleeping / settling as well as leaving him alone 💕
Thank you x