Can it really start this early?

I clean the Forest Service buildings 3 times a week for about 2-4 hours in the evening and DH watches the kids. I nurse Blake before I leave and have EBM in the freezer for him in case he gets hungry. He had been doing just fine but lately DH has been having a terrible time with him. When I first leave he is usually awake and falls asleep shortly after for about an hour then he wakes up, DH gets him immediately and he starts crying so DH gives him a bottle of EBM. He will drink some or all of it and then start hysterically crying, my DH said he tries everything but nothing gets him to calm down. As soon as I pick him up he's fine and starts smiling. My DH is really stressed by the crying and feels horrible that he can't seem to soothe his own son. When I'm home Blake is fine to be with DH and he laughs at him more than at me and DH helps and plays with him a lot so it's not like he isn't used to him. We have never experienced this with any of our girls they were all fine with us leaving them with whoever so I'm clueless as to what to do about it. I know I can't keep coming home and soothing him and then going back to work though, I'd never get done. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

My girl twin started the same thing about a week before I went back to work. She basically would not eat from my DH at all, and gave them a really hard time at daycare too. I exclusively pump, so it's not like she wasn't used to a bottle. Anyway. it took a week and a half to get to the point where she was reliably taking bottles at daycare - and she is there ALL DAY five days a week. I don't have any advice for you. It's horrible, I know. My boys are not like that at all!

 

Yep, I had the same issue with my DD. She wanted me and no one else. It made it very challenging for my DH at the time. But they both got over it. :hug:

 

We've definitely gone through stages of the same behavior at different ages. It seems to go & come, they outgrow it for awhile then it starts over again. ardon:

 

What's weird though is that he's perfectly fine with DH when I'm here, but when I actually leave the house all hell breaks loose or so I'm told.

 

Would he normally sleep a lot longer at that time and not eat if you were home? My DD goes to bed 6:30-7 and we don't feed her if she wakes up...just soothe her and put her back to sleep. Any wakings later than 10:30, I do nurse her, but it`s working out well for me to do an evening activity and have a friend watch her, because shè``s asleep anyway!