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To expect my husband to be able to look after our baby for an hour?

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CustardCreamLover · 26/03/2019 19:52

I tutor online. An hour at a time. Today it was my husband who had to look after the baby. Recently it's been more often his mother. I had to stop my lesson after 40 minutes because he couldn't stop the baby from screaming. The second I took him off him he stopped. Was it the baby or my husband causing the issue here? I think it's my husband. The baby is fine with his mother. I'm.so pissed off but I don't know if I should be??

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SoHotADragonRetired · 31/03/2019 10:24

Kick him out at 11 and tell him he goes for a walk.

CustardCreamLover · 31/03/2019 11:37

He managed but said to me after it was a hard hour!!!!! I do it almost 24/7!! I did suggest he take him out in the pushchair if he wouldn't stop crying. To be fair the baby will only be Held in a sitting upright position when awake and he seems to have forgotten how to sleep in the day 😑

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LannieDuck · 31/03/2019 12:23

The more he does it, the easier it will get. Book in some more tutoring asap.

BertieBotts · 31/03/2019 20:23

It's just a confidence thing :) When he tells you he found it hard he's not suggesting that he has it worse than you do - he's just looking for a bit of reassurance that he's doing alright. It is hard to look after a baby so I don't think it's wrong to acknowledge that. He will defo find it easier the more he does it.

Ihatehashtags · 01/04/2019 06:43

A hard hour!!!! Well I hope he appreciates how amazing you are then!! He needs to grow a pair.

Dohangoversgetworseasyougetold · 01/04/2019 07:35

"hardly has any alone time with his dad because he hands him over every time he starts crying"

Agree with previous poster that this is the problem.

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