Two questions, completely seperate, I hope it's ok to put them in the same thread.
My dd is nearly 6 months and will not let anyone but me, ie dp, put her to bed. She screams and screams and screams, I don't know when it would end, because I take her and she is soothed within a minute or two at most. Our bedtime routine is not, I don't think, too much of a problem - bath (she will let dp do this), bottle in the bedroom, then occasionally a bit of a snuggle, usually into the cot with a dummy, and I leave her to it. I usually have to go back to help put the dummy back once or twice (she sometimes lets him do that too).
I'm going to a conference next Friday and I won't be home til 9pm. DP works very hard, we usually have one family day a week, not always at the weekend, and he is trying to get home for bedtime at least one other night during the week. The last few weeks we've been practising whenever he's here for next Friday. No change.
I don't know what to do. I don't know whether to try leaving her with him (he's off on Saturday) and just see how long it takes, or whether it'll just be awful anyway and to leave them to it. Any suggestions???
The second thing is whether what happened today is a manifestation of sleep deprivation or whether it's something else?? I know sleep deprivation can do some pretty crazy things to you. I was on my way home today with dd in the pushchair. I remember being at the bus station. The next thing I remember is being on a bus, about a mile or so along the bus route. Thankfully, the correct bus, and thankfully dd was safely asleep in the pushchair. It was scary. Has anyone any experience of this happening? I am pretty chronically sleep deprived as I am sure many of you sympathise with, but no worse than usual. I am just hoping it doesn't happen again.
Thank you for any help.