Family Frustration

Katarena • Flower child with a rock and roll soul

I'm just so done. My husband works all weekend (10am on Saturday till 9am on Monday) so I stay with my mother in law for help. But she's no help at all! She has something negative to say about everything I do. (I was doing Italian flashcards with him and she in a baby voice said to my LO "you don't need that shit") Everytime she holds him and he starts to get fussy she gives him a pacifier and tries to rock him to sleep (no matter how awake he is) or finds some excuse to hand him back to me. And every time my LO gets fussy she tells me I should feed him, I'm starving him. If I put him down to clean or just so he can stretch she baby talks to him saying things like "are your boobies walking away" "Boobies aren't even paying attention to you" "mommy's so selfish taking your boobies away" It's just so f*cking annoying after a while. And whenever she watches him he's super fussy when we get home and won't sleep. When we went on a date last we left him with my husband's aunt instead and she didn't have any of the problems my mother in law complains about, then when he got home he was so happy and sleepy that he slept almost all through the night for the first time ever. Next weekend I have a friend coming over to help me because I just can't take it anymore. But it's not like my husband has been much better 🙄 he gets five days off a week and can't change a diaper more than once in a row (claims it's only fair if we take turns). He also can't seem just to sit and hold the baby, he uses my front carrier so both his hands are free for the game controller. And he doesn't wake up to the baby crying. I was in the shower and had to jump out with soap in my hair still because I could hear the baby crying (so bad he made himself sick) from across the house and in the shower, but my husband couldn't hear him in his sleep from not even three feet away. I just feel like a single parent and I in so much need for help, I'm a full time student and have a part time job. I either have to drop everything so it doesn't hinder my little one's development or let his father and grandmother continue to watch him with minimal effort. *Sorry rant over*