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To ask DH for help getting the baby to settle after a night feed?

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HJE17 · 04/09/2017 03:13

Our 7-week-old typically falls asleep around 10.30pm and wakes up like clockwork for a feed at 4am. (I know this incredible and I'm tremendously grateful for that "long" stretch of sleep!) Sometimes after a thirty minute feed she'll nod straight back off. Most nights, though, she'll take quite a bit longer to settle back down. If I've been up with her for upwards of an hour, especially on weekends, I ask my husband to take over, and he'll then rock her another 15-45 minutes while I go back to sleep. During the week, though, when he works and needs to be up at 6.30, I hesitate more to wake him. What would you do? Grin and bear being up alone for 1.5h+ or divide the labour? Half of me thinks "let him rest", but the other half of me thinks "it's his kid too"... especially since DD rarely sleeps more than 20 min at a time during the day, so naps for me aren't an option. Am I being unreasonable to think I should not wake him?

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MrsJW15 · 05/09/2017 13:54

HJE that sounds like a good resolution. Everything feels better when you discuss it at times that are not between midnight and 5am with a screaming baby!

BendingSpoons · 05/09/2017 18:53

That's great you have figured a plan that works for you both Smile

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