to think that if you kindly take a day off work to look after the baby...

[mummyrunnerbean]

....so that your DW can actually catch up on her enormous backlog of working from home work, you should actually look after said baby, and TAKE THEM THE HELL OUT OF THE TINY TWO BEDROOM FLAT WHERE THEY SCREAM CONSTANTLY IF MUMMY ISN'T IN SIGHT.

As opposed to pootling around doing 'useful' things like cleaning out the cupboards while aforementioned baby escapes to find Mummy. And asking 'what shall I feed him?'/ 'Do you think he's warm enough?'/ 'Should you give him some more boob do you think?' every two fucking minutes! FFS you manage when I'm not here! He's alive when I get home after a day out - why when I am here do you need to ask me what to do constantly?!

And no, while I'm at it, it's kind of you to offer (for the second time in twenty minutes), but I still don't fancy a brew, or some toast, or a biscuit, or to just come and see the funny thing DS is doing now, or to have a ten minute break as I must need one by now. I JUST WANT TO GET SOME WORK DONE.

// Disclaimer: DH is lovely, and it's lovely of him to use a day of AL for this, and he did let me have a lie-in and brought me coffee in bed, so I feel bad complaining . //

But if he'd just go out I could get so much more done, but apparently I'm nagging and 'ten more minutes won't matter' and 'just let me do this first'. That was at 9am and he's just left, and I'm now too wound up to concentrate!!

ARRRGHHHH.

curly ah ok, I'm with u! :-)

Why is it so lovely of him to use a day of leave so he can look after his child? That's just called parenting.

I think if you're going to work from home regularly you need to be sure you will not be disturbed. The computer needs to be in a room where you can shut the door, and if that isn't possible then you need to make sure you get some peace, maybe use headphones? Either way your DH needs to understand you must be left alone.

My DH works from home sometimes and DD used to try and talk to him all the time because she was excited that he was home, but now she knows to leave him alone and I don't have to keep dragging her away. He has also learned that it is not fair to let her sit on his lap for a while and then get grumpy when she won't go away

We found keeping clear separation of work/not work times and space easier for DD to understand. DH only works in one room and always puts his headphones on when he is working. He stops for lunch and coffee breaks and is happy to chat or play then, but when the headphones are on both me and DD know he is busy and stay away.

I really can't understand how you can work at home with a small baby in a studio apartment Baguette
Do you not need to concentrate on your work?

how can you complain about your husband when you're wasting time posting on here?

Thanks everyone for all the advice and amusing distraction! I don't regularly work from home - I'm a SAHM until I resume my university course in September. It's just a large quantity of freelance work has recently come my way but has built up rather as it's been less easy to get done with DS around than I thought! Hence why it's kind of DH MamaLazarou - he needed to take a day off essentially to pull my fat out the fire and let me complete things I'd overcommitted to!

And agnes I was hoping nobody would notice...