AIBU to pretend the baby is still awake...?

[Judyandherdreamofhorses]

Oh bugger! Baby DS has just started to fall asleep on his own in his cot. He's 11 months. It's taken a long time to get here...

But I've got used to sitting by his cot and reading now! WIBU to sit here in peace for another hour while DH makes dinner?

Not at all, what he doesn't know....

I always tell dh it takes hours to settle dd i'm really mnetting on my phone :o

YANBU make the most of it

To be fair, I will be up half the night with said baby, and have to do the weekend on my own with both of them.

Unfortunately, I can't demand he bring me a drink...

Shh! Don't tell him. Just enjoy your book and the peace.

Hell yeah!! I stay horizontal MNing reading an intellectual book long after the baby has unlatched and fallen asleep.

Go get a drink of wine but look harassed and say how hard he is to settle.

Then enjoy it in peace OR put your head down and have a kip OR keep on mumsnetting.

Or go to the loo! Better reading light, and fewer blushes if you're caught!

Love it! Sometimes I have a lovely little nap whilst pretending to settle DD1, whilst she snores next to me.

YANBU! I do it all the time! If I go downstairs too early, DP thinks Im going to do the washing up

You deserve your chill time

I do it every night, it's often the only time I get alone.

Oh, I always do this.

I can just imagine the reverse thread if a male Dp had the knack of settling a baby - the demands for 50% bog brushing would be out in force.

Oh it's no 'knack', Holly. It's 11 months of being the only one to ever attempt settle the child.

But this isn't a DH bashing thread.

And dinner was delicious.

I don't understand how we got from lighthearted thread to the bog brushing demands

yanbu op - enjoy the peace :-)

I feel your pain!! Ds is 14 months and only started to self settle in cot in the last couple of weeks.
I'm still BFing him, but last thing at night he has a bottle of cows milk and settles really well on his own, but I do miss the time up there MNing by myself!!! :)

Totally reasonable, I think you have to snatch the bits of you time whenever you can. I decided that as my DH gets a lunch break at work when he can do whatever he wants and I am at home eating my lunch while trying to breastfeed an 8 week old and nagging my 2.7yo to eat his veg then I am entitled to steal half an hour here and there by doing stuff like that.

I have also persuaded DH that he is the king of burping babies so in the evenings when I have fed DD I hand her over to him to pat/back rub/ generally mess about with while I go back to MNing in comfort. He feels useful and smug when she burps and I am unburdened. Marvellous!

Hope you enjoyed your peace Judy

Completely random, but your NN is my absolute favourite song ever - just had to say...

Pontouf - my wife used to do that to me! I honestly believed I was an amazing burp-whisperer...

And no, you are not being unreasonable. Enjoy!

Yanbu, at least you baby is in bed. I pretend bf 6 month old ds, when he falls asleep I keep his on my breast, dp is non the wiser. I too do the night wake ups so I think it's fair.