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Five month old won’t let husband put to bed and at my wits end

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CTBB · 26/09/2023 20:41

My five month old girl is mostly breastfed but has always been given a bottle before bed from around two months old. I’ve always done the bedtime routine as my husband makes dinner but for around a month now my husband has been trying to do bedtime but baby goes absolutely crazy until I come and take over. Her and husband are best of friends all day long and he’s given the odd bottle in the morning while I have a few hours sleep and she’s absolutely fine, but at night something just clicks and sh goes mental.
We’ve tried me leaving the house, husband sitting with us and then moving onto me sitting in with them (which she sometimes entertains but other times not), he has worn my clothes, literally tried everything.
We have a wedding to go to at the end of October and there is no way I can leave her with anyone (she gets really stressed out being with other people after a while, even grandparents) so already my husband has said he won’t go which is sad enough, but the fact that he can’t even put her to bed is making me so anxious about going. I don’t want her screaming all night which I think she will (she screamed for nearly an hour on one occasion with my husband and had no sign of letting up)
Is there anything I haven’t tried?? Am I missing something??

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EggTheParrot · 27/09/2023 01:12

CTBB · 26/09/2023 22:11

Husband has sat in with us so he knows exactly how I do it and when I sit in with him, I’m literally like ‘hold her a little higher’ or ‘that’s enough winding!’
but then I think maybe he should do his own thing so that maybe she isn’t associating it with me? x

He needs to figure his own way out. Just let him get on with it. Stop going into rescue her. Stop undermining him. He can do it. He wants to do it. Let him,

EggTheParrot · 27/09/2023 01:17

My DD was ebf and I felt the same way as you but from early on if it was his night to settle her and feed her expressed breast milk then it was his turn. She refused to have me hold her tiger in the tree, but she slept immediately for him after a bottle in that hold.

She was 5 pounds at birth and struggled to breast feed for about a week but we introduced the bottle immediately. We had these glass bottles that were boob shaped and had a very slow nipple so she had to work the same way as bf.

Anyway she used to take a bottle off him and then he'd wind her and hold her on her tummy in his massive hands and then she'd be asleep. Immediately!

It's hard not to micromanage but he's her Daddy and he can do it.

CCTVcity · 27/09/2023 01:25

6pm! I swear we did more like 9/10pm at 4 months old. Now at 16 months we do 8pm

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OhcantthInkofaname · 27/09/2023 01:42

Let her cry!

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