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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Just given birth and hate everyone.

249 replies

DifferentD35 · 02/11/2018 14:50

I'm 12 days PP.

My emotions are all over the place.

DP driving me insane. I just want to leave with the baby for a bit. He keeps telling me when the baby cries and roots that he isn't hungry he just wants comfort (how can he possibly know that. 99% of the time he is rooting because he wants food). He then won't give him to me to feed him and just sits there watching him root around and whine. He told me I shouldn't always respond when he cries because he's doing it for attention, so I don't want to leave him on his own with DP because I know he won't sooth him when he's crying because he doesn't want to 'spoil him'. He's 12 days old ffs. He's generally doing my head in and I wish he was back at work already.

I have a 7 year old step daughter who is coming to stay next week. I'm feeling fragile and she is very full on when it comes to babies. She's met her brother twice and both times just wanted to hold him all the time. Absolutely fine and I love seeing them together. Same issue again. When baby cries, DP says she needs her time to hold him and he will be fine. I then have to sit there at 12 days post Partum listening to my baby cry for food because DP thinks that his DD holding him is more important. We should be teaching her that when he's hungry; she has to give him back and she can have cuddles after he's fed. She then looks at me after her dad had disagreed with me as if to say 'ha ha you're wrong' - she's 7 for goodness sake of course she's going to be happy her dad agreed with her but I feel so small.

I just can't stand anyone around me at the moment and want to hide in a corner with my baby and cry/feed him/get to know him.

AIBU? Am I being ridiculous? I'm so overwhelmed by everything and wish DP would just sod off back to work. I'm horrid, I know. I'm just a bit of a mess...

OP posts:
MarshaBradyo · 03/11/2018 17:27

You do seem unbelievably passive op
It’s hard to read

Are things improving?

DifferentD35 · 03/11/2018 17:31

I am very passive. I can't help it. He's stubborn and undermining. I'm tired and have baby blues and am really struggling. I want to contact women's aid but I'm scared to. It's hard to explain but I'm not scared of my DP hurting me, I'm scared of him flying off the handle and having a go, then just doing what he wants when he wants. I'm scared that if I confront him he will just start giving baby formula and hiding from me when he's rooting. The whole thing is so messed up and I'm a broken woman. It's not always easy..

OP posts:
MarshaBradyo · 03/11/2018 17:32

I really wish someone could help you more than on here

MarshaBradyo · 03/11/2018 17:34

It’s not your doing I know Sad
I wish I had a suggestion - other than a friend reading this and turning up

DifferentD35 · 03/11/2018 17:35

This thread has already helped me realise just how awful this all is. I don't think I found quite comprehend that before. This thread really has helped.

OP posts:
MarshaBradyo · 03/11/2018 17:36

That’s good
We’re all behind you to make a change
Hopefully on Monday

DifferentD35 · 03/11/2018 17:42

DP has gone out and I've got my feet up with a cup of tea and DS asleep next to me. Bliss... it makes me think I could do this on my own...

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steff13 · 03/11/2018 18:02

You could totally do it on your own. You said he's going back to work next week, do you have family or friends who could take you in for a while? Come get you and the baby while he's at work?

TulipsInBloom1 · 03/11/2018 18:08

OP do you have a sling for the baby? If so id be tempted to put it on and keep baby in there.

TheMythOfFingerprints · 03/11/2018 18:09

I'm not easily moved by threads but I could cry reading this.
I'm in Lincolnshire OP, I will literally get in my car right now and bring you to mine if you are too and you want me to.

Nothisispatrick · 03/11/2018 18:26

I had to stop reading for a while as I also find it distressing. If someone tried to keep my hungry five week old away from me I would punch them. I actually think I would turn feral.

Such a relief to read you are not financially dependent on this man.

TheWiseWomansFear · 03/11/2018 18:31

Not ridiculous, your DP is being thick. Ask your HV to speak to him?

DifferentD35 · 03/11/2018 18:31

How saddening that a thread about my life could upset people like this :( that's hard to hear. Probably necessary...

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KristinaM · 03/11/2018 18:41

The women here are upset because they can recall how they felt when their tiny baby cried for them and how awful it would have been if someone stopped them lifting and comforting their baby.

It’s programmed into us. That’s how babies survive, because mothers can’t bear to hear them cry. We CANT ignore it.

It’s such a cruel and controlling act to keep you and baby apart when you need each other just to show you both who is The Boss.

This is not a good man. He’s not a good father or a loving partner.

Quartz2208 · 03/11/2018 19:04

OP its because he is making a 12 day old baby cry and not have his needs met by his mother and is attention seeking - because if he is jealous and punitive now how is he going to be when he is a toddler

Ozziewozzie · 03/11/2018 19:15

The advice you have been given on here is bang on correct. Your dp is controlling and is simply belittling you at an already vulnerable time. Just for the record, being a new mum is a vulnerable and challenging time for literally most of us. We all know it, yet for some nutty reason, we all feel we have to show the world how perfectly we are coping. We judge ourselves hard enough without needing some twazzock to do it for us. Dp neglecting your baby from feeding and comfort from you is actually cruel. Get hv to tell him, or call him if he’s back at work. She could say how you were worried you were doing it wrong blah blah blah and how she’s insisted you have the right approach. Bloody hell, if babies that young don’t get regular feeding they can dehydrate or not thrive. It’s so important you listen to your baby. You are so right. He is completely wrong.

7yo7yo · 03/11/2018 19:35

Op have you got real life support?
Please please tell someone in real life.

TooManyPaws · 03/11/2018 19:42

I've never given birth but this is upsetting me too. How dare the utter dickhead do this to his child and to you!

I will say that life with my father was living on eggshells for a good 50% of the time. Never in public until he was in his 80s, but it definitely scarred me badly. Do you really want this for your child? You're not tied to the heidthebaw financially and could manage on your own much more happily.

Forgotmycoat · 03/11/2018 19:44

Op if you're in London I can pick you up and bring you to mine. Your partner is emotionally abusing you and your baby.

WickedLazy · 03/11/2018 19:45

^That's a nice offer, but tbf you could be anyone...

littlemisssunshine81 · 03/11/2018 19:45

OP as I sit here with my 6 week old I remember back to when DS1 was little and crying for me and my BIL (who always knows best rolls eyes) took him and basically wouldn’t give him back because he said he was fine and didn’t need me. I didn’t stand up for myself then but if anyone even tried that with me now I would literally tell them to F right off. Your DP doesn’t sound like he is helping you or your baby. You need to tell him that your sole reason for being at th moment is to look after and nurture this new tiny baby that you spent the last 9 months growing and that not he nor anybody will get in the way of that. You know best what your baby needs and if he can’t support that and enable/facilitate you to do that then he needs to get going. His time will come to be more involved/feed baby etc but right now it’s down to you x

Forgotmycoat · 03/11/2018 19:51

Thanks @wickedlazy. I'm an axe murderer

WickedLazy · 03/11/2018 20:00

Or a cult leader Grin

Forgotmycoat · 03/11/2018 20:02

Shit... how did you know???

Spanglyprincess1 · 03/11/2018 20:12

My dp has started doing this now baby is four months old. Insisting he rocks him to sleep and huffing if I try to take him abck to feed/soothe him as I hate hearing him cry. He got a lot of swear words last time he did it and I'd rather die than hear him.crying like that.
But even then it's when baby has already been fed, changed etc etc and just wants a top up and it's certainly not all the time!

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