Daddies. Ugh. 🙃

Shae • Happily married and mama to Ronan, Freyja and Scotti. 💞

My husband and I have a nighttime plan for our 11 week old where I get up with him if he wakes up between 9p and 2a and my husband gets up with him between 2a and 6a (when he has to start getting ready for work). Lately my son has been waking up toward the earlier part of my husband’s “shift” and is very fussy/won’t take a bottle and screams a lot. I don’t know about y’all but when I can hear my baby screaming in another room and it’s not letting up, I am wide awake feeling bad for my husband and worried about my son. So I went down to offer what help/support I could. I’ve noticed he gets himself really worked up and anxious very quickly when my son cries and then gets upset when I offer to help because I can tell he’s stressed out. I’m pretty sure he thinks that by accepting my help he’s admitting that I’m “better” at it than him (LOL) but I’ve always tried to approach it from the perspective that we’re a team, not competitors. I’m just so frustrated and don’t know what to do because they’re both so unhappy every night but he won’t let me help him. Any suggestions on what I can do to make his nighttime feedings go better?