Help! My DD will not let my husband put her to bed for naps or for night time sleep. She spends lots of time with him at weekends, he does bath and bottle every night but if he tries to put her down to sleep she us hysterical. We started pu/pd together when she was 5 months and both had very successful results initially. I then took over doing all naps during the day as DH is at work and then I continued to do evening sleeps so he could have dinner etc. On the odd night he has tried to give me a break she just gies completely crazy after 45 mins if unsuccessful pu/pd I'll go in and she calms immediately. My DH feels awful as he can't help and awful that DD is so upset. We have tried her spending a whole day with daddy and him doing all naps and night time however each nap she will eventually go down after 40 mins of hysterical screaming and night time it can take him hours of same. Just too stressful for DH and DD.
With me it takes 15 mins and no pu/pd except on the rare occassion. At night tho it can take me around 45 mins if going in and out til she is finally able to settle herself. It would be nIce to have the odd evening off.
Any ideas what we can do to ease the pressure all round. We'd like to leave her with my parents for a night over the Xmas break but just envisage her screaming for hours on end. She's never had an overnight anywhere.
Should DD is bf except for last feed which has always been a bottle with dad.
TIA