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[quote=Anonymous]DH went through something similar when DD was still very young and I was on maternity leave.  I don't know if it's possible for your family but DH was able to take a few weeks of paternity leave when I went back to work and it was amazing for his relationship with DD and his confidence as a father.  Me not being around to help him or interfere helped him figure out how to take care of DD solo.  Now at 4 months, he's just as good at comforting DD as I am and sometimes better.  I'm still on nursing duty when we're all home from work/daycare and overnight but he can do all of the non-feeding stuff with DD.

Another thing I ran into is around 2.5 months, my boobs stopped being a magical cure all for DD.  Up til then, if she was fussy, a boob in her mouth would cure it so our go to was always for me to try nursing her.  After 2.5 months, she didn't really want to comfort nurse any more so I was no longer the only source of comfort for her, she needed more things like bouncing, singing, etc that DH could do just as well as I could.  That was a big change for us in that she's just as likely to want daddy now as mommy when she's fussy.[/quote]

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