is it possible for the men to have post pardom depression? My daughter is almost 5 months old and my husband doesn't have much to do with her. When he holds her she screams. It's causing my husband and I to have problems what should I do to get him to have more to do with our daughter?
I am with @queendavis, one thing is if he feels left out or rejected by the baby, another thing is if he yells and curses at her. That's why she probably doesn't like him, because she doesn't feel saved and loved and probably feels threaten
Also you can't make him want to spend time with your daughter and be more involved. If he doesn't want to, then it will be unpleasant for everyone when he does. If he doesn't want to spend time with his own child then I really don't know what to tell you. Sounds like his priorities are fucked up.
Hmm that can be very stressful. I say you tell him he needs to talk to you or someone as to why he's acting like this or his daughter will want nothing to do with him like how she will be shy every time he says hi or hugs her. That's a hard situation I'm sorry
Men cannot have PPD. My husband wouldn't be holding our kids if he yelled and cussed at them, shit he might not even be in the picture if he acted like that, they are babies for Christ sake and that is completely unacceptable. Sounds like he's an asshole and needs a reality check.
He could just be nervous depending on how over bearing you are because I tend to be so I try not to
What do you do when she starts crying? I have learned to walk away and let my husband figure it out. He use to get mad at me because I kept telling him what to do with him so I try to let him handle our son until he asks for help. Maybe go away for an hour like grocery store run and have him with her and see how it goes. He can always call
I think it's possible, i don't think it would exactly be post partem but SOMETHING lol. Becoming a parent is stressful, maybe ask him what he's feeling? Find out if he may be scared of something. it is so very common for men to be scared about hurting baby on accident. Maybe he just doesn't know how to help out?