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To ask my DH to help...

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Kerala2712 · 28/11/2016 08:51

I am 20 weeks pregnant, we have a DD of 21 months. I have hyperemesis, and generally don't do pregnancy well. Up until 6 weeks ago DH worked away, and I worked bank shifts when I could get childcare (mostly late nights, usually 10 hours in A+E, so no predictable sitting down/peeing/breaks etc). He has changed his job to be working from home and self employed. This seems to mean making a few phone calls and frequently disappearing to the pub. We have a very bouncy springer spaniel.
As he's home more WE agreed that I would take on as many shifts as possible up til christmas to top up my mat pay (zero hours contract). I have worked 60+ hours almost all at night each week for the last two weeks (only two weeks).
Although he's good with DD, he doesnt do proper bedtime routine (waits til shes past it then slings in grobag with clothes on (last night not even new nappy) and puts her in bed- no story, cant be bothered with teeth etc. He doesn't pick up after himself or her, never 'sees' a job, has walked the dog three times in two weeks. He has begrudgingly allowed me an extra hour or two in bed in the mornings on post work days (constantly interrupted by 'wheres the...etc') and this morning (i finished a 12 hour shift at 2am, got in at two thirty) DD woke up at 5 (hoping thats a phase) - i got up and did getting dressed, teeth, breakfast, playing, cleaned up broken glass he hadnt been bothered to clear up properly last night, sorted out kitchen (total pigsty) changed bedlinen on Dd and spare room as mil coming to stay tonight. I woke him up at 7.30 and asked him to take DD to Nursery (she goes two days a week, so I can work, the last two weeks he's taken her most (not all) days) and he told me to f off, that i was being selfish, unreasonable and unfair and basically not pulling my weight. Prior to this last couple of weeks as he's worked so full on I have done every early morning, all night wakings before she slept through, all housework, admin, i even do his bloody tax return. Am i being unreasonable to ask him since he's home now to do more? Like walk dog, take to nursery when I've had three hours sleep and doing same shift today, clear up, at very least do proper bedtime routine etc? I feel like he's being lazy and childish, but not sure if its just me being pregnant and unreasonable (as he argues)

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Allthewaves · 28/11/2016 14:02

You need to sit him down and plan the wk. If your coming off night shift then u need him getting up with dd and not waking you.

If you need to write down dd night routine then so be it - obvoously he needs idiot proof instructions.

Amazed your managing 60hr shifts woth hypermesis

Trifleorbust · 28/11/2016 14:04

Dear god, he is treating you like shit. You need to sit him down and tell him this can't continue or you will be considering your options.

Mycatisfuzzy · 28/11/2016 14:13

How on earth have you managed not to have a nervous breakdown/end up in hospital ill?

What a horrible, horrible man. What are you getting out of this relationship? surely it would actually be easier to be single? You'd have the same amount of work but none of the resentment

stayathomegardener · 28/11/2016 14:30

I think OP may have less work fuzzycat!

MrsTerryPratchett · 28/11/2016 15:08

And don't refer to it as 'help'. He's not helping you when he looks after DD when you're working. Any more than you're 'helping' him. You should be both pulling your weight as adults and parents.

When he told you to fuck off... that's the end of the relationship for me.

Ellenosaurus · 28/11/2016 15:27

I don't think asking OP why she is having another child with him when she's already pregnant is very helpful - what are PP expecting her to do about it now?

OP your H sounds like a selfish pig and if I were you, I'd be saving some of the money from your extra shifts for a time when you tolerate him no longer and you jump ship. It's so sad that he doesn't see you as a team, rather you're his skivvy and if things don't improve, I'd be showing him the door. You might actually find that life without him is easier than having to pick up after him. I would not be tidying the house for MIL's arrival. Let her see the house at its worse then explain that this is how her son is happy for his pregnant wife and child to live. Hopefully she'll be so ashamed, she'll give him a massive kick up the backside. Sadly I don't think it'd make any difference. Good luck OP, you have my sympathy! Get saving and planning!

Kerala2712 · 28/11/2016 17:21

:) I have told him to go and stay at his mothers (with her) until/if he can grow up. Yes it would be easier without him at the moment as I now can't even trust him with childcare. Thank you for helping me see its not me.

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Littlepic · 28/11/2016 17:34

Hope you are ok OP? He sounds like a lazy ass. He needs to make some serious changes and soon!

Kerala2712 · 28/11/2016 17:38

Thank you Littlepic. Actually feeling a bit better. Amazing how taking back some control helps. He's gone for tonight so we'll see what happens. He definitely has some work to do.

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expatinscotland · 28/11/2016 17:47

What he's doing to your daughter is actually neglect. See it that way. If he were on her own with her and SS saw all that, he could be in trouble. It's completely unacceptable. And the way he treats you is emotionally abusive, too. I'd leave him with his mother for a while. A very long while.

Littlepic · 28/11/2016 17:48

Well done for taking control. Make sure you are getting as much rest and RL support as you can x

Nanny0gg · 28/11/2016 18:35

So did you tell his mother what was going on?

littlesallyracket · 28/11/2016 19:45

He is not 'good with DD' if he doesn't put her in nightclothes and a clean nappy or bother to brush her teeth before he puts her to bed. He is terrible with her. Who the hell just sticks a toddler in a cot in the clothes they've been wearing all day, dirty teeth and no fresh nappy? If it happens on a regular basis that's fucking neglect.

Memoires · 29/11/2016 17:44

Well done, Kerala.

I reckon you probably need a good a months' respite from him, at least. Then you will be able to see more clearly what he actuallt brings to your life and whether you are more relaxed and happier without him.

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