i have two kids.

i've always noticed with my two that they go in stages and they have preferences. my oldest one preferred my husband and still does. i don't think of him as rejecting me as opposed to simply preferring someone else. he also liked to be held a lot.

my second one (now a year old), doesn't enjoy being held as much but i'm the preferred parent usually. if i try to rock him he screams at me until i put him in his crib. i don't think he's rejecting me, i think he wants to go to sleep and my insistence on touching him is hindering that.

babies have personalities and desires. i've never given it much thought past that.