11 Month old I want mummy not daddy

[sarathewife]

HI there,

I hope someone out there can help me out. My husband and I have a healthy 11 month old baby. She has been combination fed since birth with success. She has taken to solid food like a fish to water, all the normal developmental things. She is walking now and I get the feeling she wants to talk already.
However very recently in the last few nights she has screamed the house down when my husband tries to feed her the night time bottle. She will play with him when he gets back from work. He feeds her dinner, play in her room, gives her a bath etc. with no issues whatsoever. You can hear them laughing together. So she is not worried to be around him but when the bottle comes out for the last fed of the day she starts up. He tries to calm her but I then have to take over the feed because the screaming gets to a point that he can 't handle it and she gets in such a state, it is really unsetting me. He has alway given her the night time feed since she was new born so whatever is going on is very new. I don't want it to continue so I'm reaching out to the world....

Thanks in advance

What about if you moved on to a sippy cup now, maybe even cow's milk? You say she is fine about dinner, maybe this would help? Or maybe even when he puts her to bed he can give her extra runny yoghurt after her dinner and leave it at that?

Hi ya, Thanks for getting back to me.

Sippy cup - I thought she was too young for that? I might go to Boots to pick one up anyway. Can't hurt. I'm open to suggestions.

Could do that, I guess. Have dinner and go to bed. The thing is, if I did it, she's fine - not a problem at all. Its just as soon as my husband takes her into her room, its like she knows its bed time and screams for me and only me!!!! As soon as I hold her she calms right down and then settles down with the milk either going off or out for the night!

My husband misses that feed at night as he works and doesn't see her much during the week so its important to him. Its not like she's not used to him giving her the last feed which is the strangest thing. Why the upset now after 11 months??? Could this be a simple case of separation anxiety, Teething and need mum, just don"t know?

Thanks again

My DS2 refused to ever take a bottle (of expressed milk) from his dad. He was a total Mummy's boy until he was about 18 months old when he totally switched allegiance and only wanted daddy. I tried not to feel too insulted!

She's not too young for a cup at all, sippy or otherwise. I think this isn't really about the feeding, though, is it? I would try leaving the house when your DH puts her to bed, she won't like it the first night but she should adapt quite quickly as no point screaming for you when she knows you are not in the next room.

Thanks for all the advise we will try some of your points