Dd is nearly ten months old.
She is obsessed with her dad - calls him 'Gad'. She is yet to utter anything that resembles 'mama, mum'. He plays with her for one hour in the morning then sods off to work returning when she is in bed.
I have to do night wakes because if she realises it's him, she shrieks and starts laughing.
I really enjoy my baby, do baby groups, we read, go park , I crawl round living room chasing her - loads of fun stuff. But when dp is here I don't get a look in 
Sat and Sunday are spent crawlng up his legs, on his shoulders, waiting outside toilet or trying to get in bath with him. We have just been out in the car and she spent the entire time gazing at him while he was driving. I really felt a pang of jealousy 
Why does she like hm more than me?! I'm well better!
at least I get snotty open mouthed kisses
AIBU?
To think my dd is a sell out!
Cigarettesandsmirnoff · 06/03/2014 21:10
Honestly? Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Id take one of those weekend days back and have a You Day 
she clearly wont mind you going off out aloneto meet with friends, shop, get drunk go to the pictures or for a swim...
They go through phases of preferring one person over another. In a while it will be your turn as flavour of the month and you will long for the days when you could leave her with daddy
My dh is a sahp and has been dd's main carer since the day she was born. She is a mummy's girl when I am home but is not bothered when I am out. If dh goes out she gets very confused and can't understand it. She often goes round the house looking for him. Not upset but perplexed. She doesn't need to cling to dh or follow him round or demand his attention all the time because he is always there, a constant presence, so not effort is needed with him 
theArmadillo your take on it is much better, that's what 'must' be happen g here
It's because you are with her most, that's all.
I think both sexes are the same for this, both our sons and dd were like this.
Just keep saying mum to her all day, she'll soon have it as default
The time you need to watch is when she is older and she either tries to play you and dh against each other, flutters her eye lashes at him and wraps him round her little finger. They can be little manipulative monsters if you let them.
My dd has tried this for years, I don't know why it is in her nature. I'm not at all like that, sometimes I wish I could be but its just not me.
My DD is the same. It's been 18 months of Dada. No sign of Mama being wanted yet. I'm not allowed to kiss or cuddle DH without her trying to push me away We are due DC2 in Aug and I don't think she'll bat an eyelid until DH holds the baby.
It's a good thing she's cute!
anyone remember the 'daddy or chips' advert?? this thread reminds me of it 
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My ds once gazed up at me and said "oh, I love you, mummy!" I obviously melted and was about to say something suitably soppy when he carried on "but I love daddy, Dace [his name for his big sister] and the kittens more"
Such cruel, cutting remarks out of the mouths of babes!
charlie I already know dd loves cheese more than me. Grated cheese is her fave.
Tbf nobody comes before a watsit!
I do wonder if it's a gender thing? Can babies be aware of it??
They say Dad or some variant earlier anyway, because it's an easier sound to make. Unfair I know! Also, as TheArmadillo says, they go through phases. I was chopped liver for ages and then it flipped and I was worshipped like a goddess. No clear reason why it changed at the point it did, it just happened.
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always 
Jesus ladies, us mums get the shitty end of the stick or what!
We do! Where is the gratitude?! Pretty sure I was exactly the same with my mum though!
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