DS freaksout when daddy tries to put him to bed.......can anyone advise?

[LittleMan]

My ds is 15 weeks old and for a good 8 weeks or perhaps more his bedtime routine has consisted of bath and feed, or now feed and bath then cuddle with mummy then into cot and off to sleep. He now settles pretty well like this and doesn't wake again until around 4am (we stir him for dream feed at 11pm too). Now that we pretty much have our evenings back I was hoping to start doing some extra baby activies in the evening (i.e kick boxing classes to get back in shape!) however every time daddy has tried to put him to bed he freaks out crying, arching away from dh and getting generally very upset. Eventually i have to take over (ds is getting to the point where i think he may be sick), calm him down, cuddle then put him to bed after which time he goes off to sleep as normal. Tonight dh tried twice but same thing happened each time.
Has anyone else had this trouble? Can anyone give me any ideas as how to tackle this problem? Any Help would be much appreciated!

Anyone?

wqAIT UNTIL HE IS NICE AND CALM, FLOPPY AND DOZY with you, then hand him to daddy for a while. Does your partner handle him a lot in the day? He needs to. My ds2 is like this but is getting better - but I found trying to insist he goes to daddy doesn't wiork.

Had this problem with my ds but he was much older, about 10/11months. After 3 nights like this, ie. tears, he gave in and accepted that daddy put him to bed. It took about a week of constantly daddy on bedtime duty and then we made sure we alternated every other night or so to keep daddy's hand in so to speak. We also resorted to daddy wearing my pj top (my smell) which may have helped. We also compared notes on songs sung etc. Dh found that when ds got too hysterical he would walk out of ds' bedroom, all house lights off or dim, and distract him quietly with things in the moonlight, then once he was calm he would take him back into the bedroom. Seemed to help. HTH and that things have improved for you since your post.

Littleman - my Dh is away alot & DS (now 71/2mths) has to have a good few days with lots of daddy time before he allows him to be anywhere near him at night. I'd be inclined to say persevere or you won't get any time to yourself & your Dh will feel useless. Your DH is going to do things slightly differently to you anyway so the sooner your DS gets used to it the better (as I've learnt to my cost! - we've just had an hours hysteria here but DS went down in the end, I've dried my tears & DH feels all manly & useful again ) may not work for you but HTH