My daughter is whining for her daddy and I can't get her to shut up?

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Me and her father don't live together. We're living in different countries, basically because I have to sort out when I'm leaving my job, transporting my stuff over and selling my flat.

For the past three days she's been whining and wanting her daddy (she's managed to mumble out dada a couple times which is how I know) No matter what I do I can't calm her down. She was following me about the flat and I closed the kitchen door slightly and it banged her head as she was crawling. I took her to the doctor and he said she just had a bruise where she banged her head but since she has not stopped whining. Is there can way I can get her to stop? I've had her dad on the phone and she's heard his voice. She only five months old.

She's been crying her self to sleep, she's really got her self worked up and won't calm down. My neighbours are complaining that she's crying for long periods of time, last night she didn't even sleep and using a web cam is no good because he has no internet. We've been away from him before. She's only ever seen him four times so I don't know where this has come from.
Ok, maybe I didn't word this best but I haven't slept properly in ages. I have tried everything I can think of. I've taken her for long walks, had her dad on the phone, cuddling her, singing to her, talking about her dad to her but nothing seems to work which is why I let her cry herself to sleep.
I'd let her see her dad more but it is almost impossible to do it because of the hours he works. I'm hoping to move in the next few weeks so we can be a family together. I'd have moved sooner but the company I had to move my stuff went bust and the buyers for my flat went through.
 
"I can't get her to shut up."

Well that's kinda mean.

The answer should be obvious:Let her see her friggin' dad more often.Other than that,learn to have some patience with your daughter. :-I
 
i dont think she is crying for her dad at five months if she has only ever seen him 4 times. it sounds like she is teething and needs her mom to stop being frusterated with her, try giving her some tylenol then get off the interent and go pay some attention to her.
 
have you got anything that smells like him, a top or something, that might help, because babies will cry when they arent being held by their mum and if you hand them over to someone else who has just had a baby they will settle
my point again being give her something that smells like him
good luck x

also it might be teething as dada is only her sounding out letters it doesn't mean much (learnt from child psychology ) and also at 5 months she wouldnt be able to form bonds just yet. Only at 7 mmonths to they form proper bonds with people and will notice absence.
 
i dont think its her missing her dad....i dont think a 5 month old is really that attached yet....maybe her head hurts from hitting in on the door, maybe shes hungry, gassy, sick, tired, needs a pacifier, is constipated.....ii mean it could be anything.....but i dont think its the dad
 
she clearly has a bond with her daddy, i would just let her do what shes doing, you want her to keep this bond with her father, you just have to explain daddy will be coming soon. my 2 year is the same, with my husband, and we live together. when she wakes up and his gone to work, she cries wheres daddy all bloody day, if he goes when shes awake she cries at the door for hours, she wont let me hug her or anything. when he comes home, she cries because shes missed him all day, i simply cant win and either can he, he shows her way to much attention, but i wont get in the middle of it, because thats her daddy, the one true man that loves her more than anything.
 
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