Separation Anxiety?

Last night my husband was sitting with our almost 4 month old son while I used the bathroom. All of a sudden i heard blood curdling screaming and ran out of the bathroom. My poor husband was so upset and distraught because he couldn’t get him to calm down. I picked him up and he immediately relaxed and fell asleep in my arms. Tonight, the screaming wasn’t like last night but he was fussy and yelling and we did the same process. I tried explaining to my husband not to take it personally because he feels awful as a dad. It’s interesting because it only happens at night right before bed. Is anyone else’s 4 month old experiencing this? It happens when our son is super tired so maybe he’s just fighting his sleep? First time parents over here so we hate seeing him so upset.

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Our little guy went through a phase like that around 2.5 months and it lasted a couple weeks. He would cry with anybody but me and I could tell my husband felt a bit hurt and like he was doing something wrong. Being that our little guy is breastfed, he was used to my smell and that would be the only thing to calm him down. During that period, I just tried letting my husband figure out other ways to soothe him. He would sometimes get one of my bras from the laundry basket and the smell calmed him while he held him lol. My husband taking him outside also worked! Playing music, talking and playing with him to keep him distracted were some other ways. After a couple weeks my little guy seemed to finally get used to my husband soothing him in a different way and now he doesn’t even mind be held by other people most of the time! (Unless he’s hungry or course 😅)

Sometimes our little guy just needs to get a good fuss out for a few minutes before he falls asleep when he is overtired. If he’s fed and changed then we just cradle him until he dozes off.

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