I came on this thread looking for advice about this, and saw similar thread, about a baby who doesn't seem to miss its parents. I didn't want to crash it so am starting my own, and it's a slightly different situation anyway.
Baby is 10 months old. I have started working again for 1 full day and 2 half days p/w. I'm happy that we have a super childminder, and baba loves her.
When I come home, baby smiles and waves. But in the past couple of weeks she's been squealing with joy and kicking and waving manically when my husband comes home.
i'm happy she loves her daddy, especially as he took a few weeks to bond with her. Fatherhood hit him like a ton of bricks and he didn't enjoy the early weeks. I had a rush of love for her as soon as she was born. I know my husband feels guilty about how he was when she was a newborn, and has worked hard to make up for it. He does lots of silly mad dances with her, which she loves, throws her around etc, and is now great fun.
I'm starting to get paranoid that maybe she thinks I'm just too boring and that I should be making more effort. I adore her, and play with her toys, help her to walk, read to her, babble with her etc. Maybe it's just because she spends so much more time with me that she doesn't get so excited when I come home?