We have an 8 week old baby and a 3.8 year old.
I?m feeding/changing the baby throughout the night so don?t sleep well.
OH sleeps in another room as the new baby disturbed his sleep, also he snores horribly so it works best for all of us. But this means his sleep is not disturbed, he gets to stay up in the evening playing his XBOX, watching TV, whatever, then sleeps through the night, and then gets to sleep in on mornings he?s not working early, and even on his ?early? mornings, we?re usually up before him.
I, on the other hand, go to bed early cos I?m knackered, am up several times in the night, then I have to wake up in the morning when the baby is sleeping, which wakes her up, and struggle to get my 3 year old, the baby and myself dressed, fed, ready and off to nursery.
All while OH sleeps.
In the first couple of weeks of DD2?s life he at least took DD1 to nursery, (it?s a 10 min walk for us, or a 2 minute drive for him) but only twice did he attempt to get her up and ready so that I could stay in bed with the baby.
Now he doesn?t even bother to take her (after I?ve already got up and got her ready, which usually results in the baby waking up).
He works, I don?t. Sometimes he works long hours, I wouldn?t expect him to
do anything on days he?s home really late and wouldn?t have had much sleep himself.
But surely if he can afford to go to bed at 2am (after staying up doing whatever) then it?s not unreasonable to think maybe once or twice per week he could make a sacrifice and go to bed earlier so that he could get LO ready for nursery and then I could get some sleep for once?
Or am I being unreasonable because he works and I don?t and apparently just sit around the house all day doing absolutely nothing.....?!!!