He went out last night and stayed out til the wee hours, came home slightly worse for wear (i am presuming given the hour and his extraordinary effort to be quiet which did not work 
), into bed at 3am.
This in itself is not a big deal, he no longer goes out til the wee hours, not often anyway and normally planned in advance for a celebration. I was fine with this, he was going to a male only 'bonding' session with a friend whose wife is pregnant after several ivf treatments to celebrate his imminent arrival into the world of fatherhood, along with their other male friends (all of which have children, some of them newish parents). I am pretty sure this will be the start of a few more evenings like this in t coming months!
However, on his return, he made a little bit of noise, and the front door is under DSs room. I did not go to bed til gone 11pm as DS needed his 11pm feed which DH has taken to doing, and at 2:45am, as he came in, he woke me and DS up.
That was pretty much the end of the night for me. DS slept hourly from them on til 6:00am when DD got up. We all 'snuggled' as much as you can snuggle with a hectic 4yo who has ants in her pants from the moment her eyes open and a 10 month old who gets infected with it when he sees her.
On monday I go into hospital, and DH will have to look after both children, do the school run, breakfast, lunch tea, put them to bed, and look after DS all night as I will be out but probably not up for doing much of the looking after. However, I will likely not sleep as DS will be vocal so will be tired then too!
AIBU to wake DH up at 9am so I can go back to bed for a couple of hours? the 3.5 hours sleep per night without a break is pretty normal for me as DS is teething so I am a bit hangdog.
AIBU?
to wake DH up after only 6 hours sleep?
PavlovtheCat · 25/09/2010 08:35
I wanted to give him a bit of one, and if i was not so tired i would let him stay in bed til he woke, as its my turn tomorrow . He gets up early each day to sort the kids out while i get ready for work, and does his share of trying to get DS to sleep with his badly broken sleep due to teeth.
And I don't want him to be grumpy with the kids due to being hung over.
(so there are ulterior motives )
Oh no, i would have given the lie-in too (for the same reasons as you)!
But make no mistake, 9am is a lie-in when you have littlies (ds woke us up with traumatic nightmare at 4.30am and that was it 
- dh got up at 5.15am and so I got up at 7ish so he could sleep though he is still up!! grr)
theredhen I can't either. DH can sleep through an earthquake. He can sleep through DS crying in the middle of the night when he is right next to us, or, now he is in his own room, with the monitor on. I have to kick him out (which sort of defeats the object but I like principles ).
DH has always gone to sleep listening to audiobooks so guess his ability to sleep through noise is greater because of it. If I fall asleep to audiobooks I wake with a headache.
Pavlov, that sounds lovely. We are having a nice morning despite the early start, I think because we both have made a conscious effort not to be nasty grumps - and put aside today to not try to do too much, just potter and drink tea (and sort out dd's new room).
Hopefully, the birthday bbq means the kids will be all entertained and you will enjoy too! Make sure you mention how dreadful your night was, so people look after you (unless it will bring much judginess 
).
Good luck with your day, take it easy.
Aw, yes to being magnanimous!
Glad the kids being lovely, my ds is sliding down the sofa wearing a hat that dd made out of sellotape and paper (she is now making one for herself). Sometimes it all works out like that- I think it's cos we take the pressure off when we know we HAVE to take it easy. And then funnily enough the kids respond by being chilled and calm 
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