Those of you with normally helpful SO’s...

Do they still have days where they’re totally worthless?? My SO wasn’t a lot of help when baby first came home from the nicu, always the excuse that he was afraid. He also works out of town so he’s often gone for up to 2 weeks at a time. He has really stepped up the last 8-9 weeks though and been amazing and helpful. Well now he’s been home from work for the last 3 weeks and the novelty of being home has worn off and he’s feeling a bit overwhelmed and needs a break. So today he’s done NOTHING. He napped for 3 hours today and went to bed at 8 pm.

I wish I could take a full day off of all responsibilities and rest when I’m feeling overwhelmed and tired. Instead, today, I took care of baby alone all day, made everyone breakfast lunch and dinner, cleaned it all up myself because the big kids (teenagers) are sick and I wasn’t going to ask them to help clean when SO was perfectly healthy and doing nothing but watching football, basketball, and sleeping. I bathed baby, did the grocery shopping, took out the trash etc.

I really shouldn’t complain at all because he’s normally amazing but I’m so exhausted and sore today (baby is getting too heavy to wear all day but was too fussy to put down) and yet I’m the one up walking around and bouncing our gassy baby (which I got blamed for because I ate too much dairy yesterday not realizing that my mom put cream cheese in potatoes she made us). He gets to do whatever he wants when he’s off work while working out of town and I’m on the hook literally 24/7 so I don’t feel like he should get a full day to do whatever the hell he wants when he’s home and not working either. 😫 #exhaustedmummyvent