Hi mums, hoping someone here has some advice on this new issue. Never a dull moment with babies! I'm a FTM.
My husband is a wonderful father and has been from day 1. He and baby play loads together and she loves him, laughs and cuddles lots. Her vision and sense of who is who has clearly improved over the weeks, which is developmentally exciting and intriguing to us as parents too.
When mum in law and sister in law visited last week, she cried a lot when they held her at first, but warmed up in a few hours. They spent the week with us and she was comfortable enough with them that my husband and I could go out one night and have a little date night dinner. This also happened to be a busy work week for him but he still made time, played and cuddled a bit day, changed nappies as he often does and so on.
But suddenly today she started scream crying every time he held her. She was fine all day and it switched suddenly in the evening. We tried a few times and she seemed TERRIFIED.
I understand separation anxiety kicks in around now or a bit later but this is very strange because he didn't change anything - he didn't shave his beard or use a new soap or anything like that - al he did was take a shower and he has done that several times in the past 3.5 months of her life!! But she is just not taking to him. We will try again tomorrow of course but I'm worried.
He is not taking it personally because she is a baby after all - but it's worrying me. How long might this last? And if it goes on, I won't be able to take a break to sleep in in the morning when he usually plays with her for a while (he does this because I get up at night with her).
Is this familiar to anyone? Any advice?