So last night I didn’t go to MIL for mother’s day. I asked husband to take the little one by himself so I could take a bath. First time he’s had son by himself (coming up to 8 weeks old) and he really wasn’t happy that I wasn’t going. Told him I just needed an hour to myself, going through a reflux battle at the min!
Anyway, just woken to a text from MIL saying that she will come and take the baby out tomorrow to ‘give me a break’. I’m fuming! I don’t need s break. What I need is help from her son, my husband, who is not helping me out at all. He works full time which I get, but I’ve asked him countless times for him to just do one feed once he’s home. He’s working long hours and seven days a week but still. I keep telling him to cut down his hours. He doesn’t feed him because he won’t learn how to wind him. If he does feed him then I’ll then have to wind him and then he won’t bother with the rest of the feed. He won’t change him, doesn’t know how to prepare or sterilise the bottles either. I just want him to spend time with his son. A lot of the time I have to ask him to even say hello to the little one!
I told him yesterday that I’m struggling with this reflux and he said ‘you need some hekp’ to which I ended up speechless. Yeah, I need help from him! We’ve had countless arguments about him not being any help and I’m banging my head against a brick wall.
AIBU about MIL offering to take son out? He’s obviously told her I need help. I feel really offended. I felt so much better after my bath last night, it was good to recharge my batteries and take a bit of time and actually wash my hair!! But he’s obviously told her I need help and probably made out that I’m not coping. I mean I’ll just be sat in the house if she does take him out as I’ve got nothing else to do.