Fussy baby/sleep disturbances with visitors?

[Ecoden]

Does anyone else's baby turn into a hot mess when someone comes to visit you? We've had a lot of visitors (family) staying with us recently and 7mo old DD just falls apart. We're not even changing her routine or schedule otherwise, there's just other people around. She is taking 30-45 min naps instead of the 1.5 hours she usually does and waking more at night. When she is up, she's fussy and tired and has stranger anxiety. Isn't it a bit early for stranger anxiety? Anyone else go through this? Is there anything I can do? It makes having people visit just such a pain!

 

[londonangel]

My current one isn't bothered by visitors but the first one used to hate visitors and scream and cry! Just depends on the baby really.

 

[MindUtopia]

7 months is prime time for stranger anxiety. That's when it started for us and it was really rough. Also, I find just having visitors staying with us is generally a bit rough. They are noisy, wake her up more, I'm distracted because someone always wants something and I can't always be as focused on her as I'd like to be. It's better now because she's old enough to interact with them more and they can actually help instead of just get in the way, but definitely when she was younger, it added an extra layer of stress onto everything else because having people over is extra work, even if you enjoy it too. But yes, definitely, at that age, I'd think it would cause some stress for her if people are wanting to play with her and not respect her boundaries if she's having some stranger anxiety.