Tips for Dad?

Question

Hi y’all. My husband and I are first time parents to a 4mo boy. He is a really good baby. Sleeps at least 8.5 hours a night, eats well, and is really good at daycare. However, when my husband watches him two days a week, he sometimes screams for hours on end. Daycare has not said that he does this with them. My husband really tries but cannot seem to soothe baby. We’ve switched to Dr Browns anti-colic bottles to help with gas, and baby takes a bottle really well. So we really aren’t sure what to do. My husband is ready to give up and shell out the money for full time daycare. 
So does anyone have tips/advice for Dad on how to soothe baby? 
Picture for cuteness.

Answer

He's insanely cute!
Have you ever tried "hiding" while baby watches him to see what he's doing?
If he's doing everything right, it could be that at daycare he's clearly away from you, but at home he's wondering where mommy is lol. Has he ever taken him out of the house for a bit to see if that helps?

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Oh man this is our third with daddy, one time I worked a 6 hr shift when he was like maybe 7 months literally cried the whole 6 hours except the 30 minutes he was drinking his 2 bottles. I got home daddy cried in the bathroom for an hour and then told me I couldn’t work any more lol. Really the only thing that fixed it was one day daddy took him on the tractor and he was hooked became a daddy’s boy after that would even cry when he left for work he is 2.5 now and never misses a tractor ride!

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My husband did skin to skin and would take over part of the bedtime routine. For example I would bathe him and my husband would read and give him the bottle and lay him down. It helped with bonding and helped a lot. I would also leave the two of them alone while would fold clothes or something to help baby get used to dad more. And the T-shirt thing helps a lot. My husband and I would switch too so I would sometimes use one of his that he wore around the house or slept in only for tummy time and wear his for baby when I was gone. Good luck, it does get better!

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We've had this problem at first, how we solved it was I wore one of my husband's shirts for a bit (so it got milk and spit up and sweat and just mama smells on it) then he'd use it, either put it on or rub the baby's and would play music that the baby liked (happened to be matallica or cold play)

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