[Sally26]

Ebadge-that's a very valid point. My dd was absolutely facinated with my dh when we met her she sniffed him and put her little hands on his face.
I stayed home for a month with dd, but when dh came home he took over and played with her in another room away from me. I then worked a month and then went part time and worked two days a week. The days I stayed home he took over again away from me.
I spent a lot of time telling her what a good daddy she had, how he loved her, how he was funny and silly...
We really have to prep her when he goes out of town, that he doesn't want to be gone, how he'll come back, how he'll call-which he does several times a day that he is gone.
My dh was inconsistent and it took working on it time and again. She would be doing good, so he would slack off on her care and just play with her. She would emotionally pull away or start treating him badly and he would have to work on things all over. I would say that just the past month has she shown improvement. I have had to be away over night twice in the past couple of months and she did fine with me being away.