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AIBU to refuse to feed the baby in the hallway?

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Pigeonpairmum · 19/08/2026 15:22

DH is working from home today and I’m on maternity leave with our 11 month old DD.

DD had been napping, so I was sat in the kitchen with DH while I had a call with my employer about my return to work. The internet was playing up, so he suggested I go into the living room, but I said I didn’t really want to be sat on the sofa for a call with HR. I never asked him to leave the room.

DD then woke up from her nap and needed some lunch, so I set up her highchair in the kitchen. DH asked what I was doing as he had a call and needed me to be out of the kitchen.

I said to him that I was going to feed her in the kitchen because that’s where we eat. He suggested I feed her in the hallway instead.

For context, we only have a kitchen diner & living room downstairs and we don’t eat in the living room. The hallway obviously isn’t somewhere we would normally feed DD either.

I understand that he needs the kitchen to be quiet for his work call, but I also had a baby who had just woken up and needed lunch. He ended up going into the living room as I refused to feed DD in the hallway.

Was I being unreasonable here?

OP posts:
TurtleMcTurtle · 19/08/2026 15:39

Why can’t he go upstairs?

Pigeonpairmum · 19/08/2026 15:38

He moves around, half the day sat on the sofa, half the day at the kitchen island. It’s just a standard laptop that he can move around with, so no particular set up. He does usually take calls from the kitchen, but he has calls today until 4pm and I couldn’t wait that long to feed DD.

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TurtleMcTurtle · 19/08/2026 15:24

What is the normal WFH set up? Do you have a bedroom that either one of you could use for WFH calls? Taking them in the kitchen clearly doesn’t work with an 11 month old 🤷‍♀️

Watchoutfortheslowaraf · 19/08/2026 15:24

Could he take his call somewhere else in the house? Or was his laptop etc all set up? What normally happens when he works from home at lunch time?

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