Baby hates bedtime

[Daisydoodle10]

My baby is coming up on 6 months old, is breastfed and has a bottle of expressed milk at bedtime. The last month or so, bedtime has been an absolute battle out of nowhere - she absolutely will not settle for my husband, and if I’m not around will scream herself to sleep for 45 min to an hour. She happily settles for him during the day, but can’t seem to regulate herself at bedtime. She will settle with me quite quickly, but bedtime can often take over an hour to get her settled and asleep.

The bottle at bedtime was supposed to give me a little break, but having to go and settle her every night, or do bedtime myself, just feels like an extra exhausting task.

any help needed please!

I don’t have an answer but perhaps can offer some reassurance - we had this around 5 months. Baby was a bottle refuser and so my husband had never put her to bed. Suddenly she starts taking bottles and he did a couple of bedtimes successfully but then out the blue she’d get hysterical with him every time and wouldn’t be calmed down unless I turned up.

we didn’t do anything in particular other than keep trying (I can’t remember how often maybe every 2-3 nights) and then one day (by 6 months) it was suddenly fine, and has been ever since

not sure if you are taking over from your husband if it goes wrong but if you are, the best tip I read was not to rush in all stressed and whisk the baby out of his hands, but instead to walk in calmly and go up to them both and slowly take the baby, I definitely was doing the former as I couldn’t bear her cries!

I think teething really makes them want comfort and you’re probably her ultimate comfort, it’ll be a phase like everything!