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6 month old won't let dad feed or settle her

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Daidai · 03/06/2022 06:38

My little one is 6 months and she won't let my husband feed her (shes been bottle fed since 2weeks old) or put her to bed she screams and crys. I have to take over as she's gets her self in such a state, she stops crying, takes her bottle and is asleep within 10 mins. Has anyone got any advice on how to deal with this as I would like my husband to be able to put little one to bed too so I can do our toddlers bedtine/have a break. She's like this for her naps aswell. My husband has always been very involved with her and its upsetting for him.
She's been like this since she was 4.5months and we don't know how to encourage her to settle or take bottle from her dad. We never had this issue with our toddler.
Has anyone got any advice?

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Uptooearlyagain5 · 03/06/2022 06:40

Get him to keep doing it and do more with her. Stop going in to 'save the day' at the end. She will get used to him.

SickAndTiredAgain · 03/06/2022 07:01

Take your toddler out for the afternoon and leave him to it.

Or I think you'll have to wait for her to grow out of it - which I'm sure she will.

MagicTurtle · 03/06/2022 07:03

I agree with the above posters. Either you give up and wait till she's a bit older, or you leave him to it and don't step in. I don't think there's a magic solution, sorry!

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Daidai · 03/06/2022 17:47

Thank you for your replies I will have a chat with husband and see if he wants to keep trying or wait a while then try again

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shivawn · 03/06/2022 21:41

Agree with previous posters! I had this problem too where my baby would just scream at night when my husband tried to feed him but would settle right away for me. My husband wouldn't let me intervene and he just persevered with it, it only took a couple rough nights and now baby is happy with either of us going to him at night.

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