Hiya,
Genuinely not sure if IBU so all comments, insults etc etc welcome!
I work 5 days a week, started back 3 weeks ago. I wanted to work 3 or 4 days a week so I could spend more time with DD but work told me to get stuffed and as DH didn't have a job at the time I accepted it. DH has literally just got a job - for 3 days a week (the irony, the irony...). This means that DD is at nursery 3 days a week and looked after by DH two days a week. I get into work extra early so that I can leave on time to pick her up from nursery and do bath/bedtime all 5 days. DH drops her off at nursery. So far so good.
However... our demanding little darling wakes at 5am and sometimes goes back to sleep, sometimes doesn't. She also wakes at 2.30 and sometimes 4.30 for a short-lived scream (literally 1 min, requires no attention). We take it in turns to get up to her at 5am but we both wake when she cries. So basically we're both knackered particularly as we're just getting used to this working plus childcare lark. We live in small London flat so not much scope for seperate rooms. In addition we both have high pressure jobs requiring us to be on the ball mentally.
As DH looks after DD for 2 days a week (and while he was unemployed), DD is 'mine' at the weekend, which I am very happy about. But... I want DH to do one of the early mornings on Sat or Sun so that I can get a lie in. He literally started work this week so we haven't got to this weekend yet, but it's been a bone of contention already.
DH's attitude is, if I wanted to work 3 or 4 days a week so I could spend more time with DD, why am I wasting some of my precious weekend with her, sleeping? I sort of think he's right... but I'm just sooo tired. I just want 8 lovely hours of beautiful, uninterrupted sleep and even to wake up in my own time. May be even 9 or (gasp) 10am...
AIBU? AIB a selfish biatch who needs to put DD's needs ahead of her own?