Velcro baby
Also called velcro babies
A velcro baby is a baby who wants to be held or close to a parent nearly all the time and cries when put down. The name comes from the Velcro fastener, which sticks to whatever it touches.
How it's said
Until you've had a Velcro baby, you have no idea how impossible it is to get them in a cot.
Is this how mums of Velcro babies live, glued to the sofa and their babies until they grow out of it?
He is a classic Velcro baby, just like dd was.
Who says it
Where it came from
Velcro is a brand of hook-and-loop fastener, and the name is often used for any fastener of that kind. Bill and Martha Sears, of the Ask Dr. Sears site, wrote that they nicknamed their fourth baby "The Velcro Baby" because everywhere they went, she went too. They used her story to describe what they call a high need baby.