Baby night shift when ill

[ThePoliceOfficer]

Parents a & b have specific days they do the night shift dealing with baby. Parent a is on shift but has a cold so comes up with baby earlier (8.30pm) to try and get extra rest, however baby had jabs that day and ended up being very very fussy/clingy, just not herself at all, which meant parent a literally did not sleep until 6 am when parent b took baby. Parent a was then woken at 7 am to start the day. It’s Parent a night again and their cold is worse. Is it unreasonable to expect parent b to take over since parent a is poorly and only slept 1 hr the night before. FYI, neither parent can catch up on sleep during the day.

Yabu - stick to your days no matter what
Yanbu- parent b should step up

YANBU, my partner often takes DD on 'my' morning to get up with her if shes been difficult in the night or I'm ill, and vice versa. You can't function on no sleep. Taking turns is a good way to keep things fair but there has to be flexibility for occasions like this.

Swap days - it's all good having a rota but it has to be flexible at times like this. Also, it's fairly likely that parent B will catch the illness so will have same issues on their nights? I'm saying this as a parent that spent yesterday tag teaming with other parent as both have sick bugs but (thankfully) fully healthy 3 year old to look after - technically should have been my day to do childcare as don't work a Thurs and he called in sick but we shared.

I can't imagine being in a relationship in which the solution to this issue isn't common sense and just plain obvious due to one partner's compassion and concern for their other half. If your partner is really so hard arsed, inflexible, and cruel that they won't help you when you're sick, it's time to seriously reevaluate this relationship.