Baby settling for dad but not me!

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It seems right now our little 3 week old bub will on settle for his dad over night time.

My partner does the 8pm-12am shift and although he takes a while to settle, once put down and sometimes a bit of comforting he stays asleep for 2-3 hours.

When I take over, he won't settle, if I put him down he may last only sleeping 30 mins if that... I don't know what I am doing differently?

I feed him, burp him, rock him, give him a dummy and he still wakes.

Im formula feeding, but am still leaking so not sure if this can effect it?

Also I had a c section so had to reply on my partner a lot more at the beginning and I can't have baby fall asleep on me for long before putting him down as it hurts my stomach.

Any advice or anything to help him settle?

I just don't know if there's anything I can do to help him.

Unfortunately it’s normal for babies to sleep better for Dad for some reasons. It may also be the timing. Babies wakes more in the early hours as they need to feed them to establish breast milk supply.

No advice but my DS is 12 days old and we’re in a similar boat. I am BF and I’m convinced it’s because he associates me with feeding, so when he’s on me he thinks he wants feeding even when he doesn’t really. Hope you get some answers and congrats on the baby 😊

I'm not sure I'll be much help but when my ds was a baby he would spend hours snuggling with his dad and nothing i did seemed to help much!! I felt terribly left out but it just seemed to be daddys magic for a long time! It will get better, my ds is always after me now for snuggles and he's 5!