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Baby acts differently around Mom?

kujess1kujess1 member
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Just curious if any of your babies act totally different around you than others? It's sort of starting to irritate me and I feel bad that I'm irritated...DD is so much more needy when she's with me, or even if I'm around, than when she's with DH or my mom, who watches her all week when I'm at work. When I'm with her, she is not ok with being put down, and she also will NOT nap. All week with my mom, she naps like a champ for hours (my mom gets to take bubble baths, and sometimes has to wake her up). With my mom, she's perfectly content in the rock n play, but with me, she cries the second I put her in it. I know I should take it as a compliment, that she just loves me and wants to be near me, but I feel like my mom rubs it in how good she is with her and I get a little jealous because I can't get anything done and I feel like all I do is constantly feed her and hold her on the weekends. She doesn't even like it when I wear her in a carrier either, which I've tried. I also feel like DH and my mom don't believe me that she acts differently, or think I'm exaggerating. Just a little frustrated and had to vent, and curious if anyone else has a baby that acts differently around them as well!
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  • BunnyferBunnyfer member
    Yes, LO acts different with my DH than with me. I watch her during the day, and she is content to sit in her saucer or bumbo and play with toys...with DH, who has nights, he has to hold her all the time...When he is holding her and I am around her, she is always looking for me. She does not always do that with DH when I hold her....she is smitten with her daddy though. She gets happy feet when he is around
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  • BelhurstBrideBelhurstBride member
    DD1 was like that. We joke that DH didn't even get to hold her until she was 6 months old. 
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  • amy11401amy11401 member
    Dani_brewer said:
    LO is different with me than with other people. I EBF and if I am around he is nursing every 2 hours, sometimes less ). But if I go out for a few hours, he can go 3 hours without eating and be happily playing, then he sees me and acts like he is starved to death (he will literally flick his body so he is lying across me if I have him sat up, and start pulling at my shirt. But at the same time, if anyone besides me tries to put him to bed, all hell breaks loose. He screams and cries and even make himself sick. If I am putting him to bed, he sometimes fights it a little, but mostly cuddles me and goes to sleep.
    My DS is like yours with the nursing.
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  • kujess1kujess1 member
    amy11401 said:
    Dani_brewer said:
    LO is different with me than with other people. I EBF and if I am around he is nursing every 2 hours, sometimes less ). But if I go out for a few hours, he can go 3 hours without eating and be happily playing, then he sees me and acts like he is starved to death (he will literally flick his body so he is lying across me if I have him sat up, and start pulling at my shirt. But at the same time, if anyone besides me tries to put him to bed, all hell breaks loose. He screams and cries and even make himself sick. If I am putting him to bed, he sometimes fights it a little, but mostly cuddles me and goes to sleep.
    My DS is like yours with the nursing.
    Yes, I think like you ladies, it has to do with the fact that I ebf. She's a big comfort nurser, so when she's with me, she wants to constantly be nursing. During the day with my mom, she doesn't take in that many ounces by bottle and is reverse cycling and feeding lots at night. Sometimes during a 9-hour day, she only takes 2 bottles, but when she's with me she's nursing at least every 2 hours. She probably naps a lot for my mom because she's feeding so much at night. I joke that she's an addict and I'm her dealer (of milk).
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  • Zoly1103Zoly1103 member
    Yes, in fact a couple of weekends ago I told my husband I wanted to escape the house for a couple of hours just to be by myself. When I got home, my son had slept the entire time and my husband was able to just screw around playing his game! I was so mad because I know if I had been home, E would not have been content in his swing for so long and would have wanted held or entertained.
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  • jtmomma13jtmomma13 member
    Yes. My LO is back in the stage where he will not nap unless I hold him but he naps like a rockstar at daycare. The nap thing can be very tiring as we just listed our house and have open houses and showings like crazy and I always get sidelined trying to clean to hold LO while he naps....and my ass hurts because he likes to nap with me in the rocking chair. 
    H always gives LO his morning bottle so I can get dressed for work and I can't even go into the room because LO will stop eating and wants me to feed him. 

    I think the "I only want momma" stage will eventually pass and I will be sad about it!   
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