My LO is 8 months old. I love her immensely. She has all my attention and I buy her everything she needs and I spend all my time thinking about how I can give her the best life possible.

BUT I constantly feel like I'm not really very connected to her. She looks and behaves exactly like her father and everyone is always commenting on how she is his mini. He is a great father but he works a lot and therefore is not involved in parenting much. Sometimes I just feel so detached and like I'm looking after his child and not mine...

I know these feelings are not right. But I can't help it. I'll even cry about it to myself sometimes. Why do I wish I would see more of myself in her? She is still my child, why can't I just be happy.

Is this a form of postpartum depression? Is it a hormonal thing? Normal, abnormal? Do I just need to change my outlook...?