Should dads help out with baby through the night? my rant story 🙃
Our baby is almost 8 weeks old and won’t sleep more than 2-3 hours MAX at night. She hasn’t been going to bed until midnight or after. She has colic or something and usually just screams for hours at night (and yes we’ve tried almost everything but nothing has really helped) I’ve been sleeping in the living room with her bc it’s just easier. My husband works 9-5 Monday-Friday and gets an hour for lunch and gets to come home (so he technically works 7 hours a day or 35 hours a week) he got three weeks paid leave after I had her and most of that time he wasn’t even home bc he was going to auctions or wherever else bc he can’t stand being home all the time. I asked him ONCE during that three weeks to change I dirty diaper in the middle of the night bc I was exhausted and hadn’t been to bed at all yet (it was like 2 am) and he strait up said no and then laid down to go back to sleep... I stay home and take care of the baby (not really by choice, I wanted to go back to work part time) not saying I don’t appreciate being able to stay home but I knew he would use it as an excuse not to help out at night with the baby. He would go to bed around 11 and wake up at 8 or 8:30 and have to leave by 8:45 (yes he waits u til the very last minute so he can just get dressed and leave) he would shut our bedroom door when he went to bed so he didn’t have to hear her cry at night and leave me alone to do everything. So he’s getting 9 or more hours of uninterrupted sleep so he can go work 9-5 then come home and play games on his phone or watch tv.... when I talked to him about maybe getting up earlier to take the baby so I could actually get some sleep he told me he could try. This morning he was supposed to get up at 7 (still 8 hours of sleep for him 🙃) and come take her so I could get ONE HOUR of sleep. He didn’t wake up until 7:20 and then when he saw she was asleep in my arms he went to go pick his work clothes out (no problem, right?) well he didn’t come back so I went on our room and he was ASLEEP IN BED. When he FINALLY took her around 7:45 this morning, I laid down to try and sleep and here he comes yelling for me 10 minutes later to feed her. I do breastfeed but I have a freezer stash and he could’ve just warmed up some milk and given her a bottle and let me have one single hour. I can’t take naps during the day bc she only sleeps for like 45 min-an hour (she will sleep for up to two hours if I’m holding her but then I can’t sleep bc she’s in my arms lol) and when she does sleep I usually try to go grab a snack real quick. Why is being a wife and mom SO HARD. Sorry this is super long, I just needed a rant. I haven’t slept more than like 2 hours at a time in almost 2 months and get absolutely no help at night. I’m even starting to forget things like 24/7 and I don’t think it’s healthy lol any advise or would anyone like to rant/share their stories?
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