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Do you take him (LO) back pretty quickly when he starts crying? Are you there the entire time he's playing with dad? If so, I would let your husband work out the crying, even if it's frustrating. I would also leave the room; if you're there, naturally your LO will want to be with the parent he's most comfortable with.

Can your husband do the bath itself; not just the prep?

If you don't want to let your husband take a feeding, can he sit with you while you feed LO and interact with LO during a feeding - make and hold eye contact, hold his hand, stroke his cheek, etc?

I go back and forth on solutions, because on one side, I feel like you have to let things happen naturally and on the other hand, I feel like if you're constantly stepping in, you're a roadblock.

Let DH do the bath. And if baby starts to cry, don't take him back. DS needs to get used to being with dad and dad needs to get used to learning how to settle him. It will help immensely with the bond. Trust that your DH can do it.

You've gotten great advice above, and I'd second pretty much all of it! Another thing that helped my DH was doing skin to skin with him - may seem silly since he's not breastfeeding obviously, but it really is just a bonding thing. Although by two months I was occasionally leaving to go to the store or whatever and leaving DH alone with LO, so he really had no choice but to figure it out and I think that was a good thing as well (of course this did require pumping and LO taking a bottle - but it was MUCH easier for DH to accomplish that when I wasn't home as the obvious alternative for baby.) don't get in the all too common mindset of him as a babysitter, he's a full parent just like you are. It did get MUCH easier when they 'witching hour' finally comes to an end though.

Just want to offer support! Your baby and husband will bond, sometimes it takes longer for whatever reason, and your reasons of ebf and long work hours are very valid.

My DH and baby spent a lot of skin to skin time in the early days, and my DH often wore him in a carrier, or bounced with him on the yoga ball when he was fussy. We had to start using bottles around 6 weeks because I was returning to work, and we decided only daddy would do bottles. Plus, when your baby gets a little older/bigger, they can do a bit more bonding like tickle fights, carrying on shoulders, etc.

Good luck!

Oh I remember the evening fussy days so well. DH would get home from work about 1 hour after it began and then DD would scream until 11pm, every single night. It was really hard on my DH, even though he had a good bond with DD.

The bath solution is a great one. Our DD loves her baths, always has, and it quickly became their daddy/daughter thing. I loved it because it gave me a little bit of time to myself, too!

Definitely give him more opportunities to "own" childcare. That helps quite a bit. Otherwise, your LO is only 2 months old. They have very basic needs at this point, most of which you meet most of the time. As your LO gets older, they will bond more. Towards the end of the first year it will be much more natural.

I know you said you don't want to use a bottle, but I really recommend considering adding one pumping session and one bottle. Maybe your husband can give him a bottle before bedtime? That just seems like the obvious way to help them bond.

I'm not trying to challenge your preference, and I don't know why you feel that way, so please don't take this the wrong way. Before I had my baby, I think I would have expected to feel the same way as you. But then I wasn't able to exclusively nurse, and it still worked out in the long run. Giving a bottle of pumped milk didn't turn out to be a big deal.

I had a hard time with nursing because it really hurt for about 8 weeks. So, I did a ton of pumping at first including three days of exclusively pumping (and hating every minute of it). Then for several weeks I nursed during the day and pumped overnight to give my nipples a break. My husband got up to give the baby a bottle so I wouldn't have to deal with both and be up all night.

I didn't plan on having to do that, and I was upset by it at the time. But now that I am back at work, I'm glad that I'm so used to pumping. It made that part of the transition much less of a big deal.

I was also really worried about nipple confusion, but my son could not care less where his food comes from. (I do think he likes to comfort suck when we nurse, too, though. And, lately he's been a little annoying and demanding of my boob even when he's not hungry.) He also loved a pacifier during his first three weeks and then completely lost interest. I learned a lot from those two experiences because I was anticipating problems that did not materialize.

My oldest didn't have much of a mommy preference (at least not till later) but my youngest has a HUGE mommy preference that my DH has often found really frustrating. Just waiting it out has made a big difference- as your LO gets older and more interactive it's naturally easier for other people to bond, I think, since you can start making them smile and playing with them and having a lot more interaction than with a child of only a couple months.
I agree w/ previous posters whose partners wore the baby in a carrier while out and about. (If my DH has the kids and the younger is fussing for him, he'll often put him in a carrier and take both kids and the dog on a walk- a walk outside is calming to everyone, and it gets LO used to being next to daddy).