To make DH watch TV downstairs when baby is asleep?

[WarmTurtle]

Our 5 month old sleeps in our room and DH is complaining that I don’t want him to watch TV in the bedroom when the baby is asleep because it might wake him up! We have two TVs downstairs that he can watch but thinks he should be able to watch TV in bed of an evening after I’ve spent ages rocking the baby to sleep… AIBU?

Why would the baby wake up?

Does the tv wake the baby up?

Definitely not being unreasonable! It’s very selfish of him to want to watch in the bedroom and I suspect if he had to settle baby, he wouldn’t be so keen to risk waking him.

Noise? I'd wake up with someone watching TV next to me in bed.

I guess it depends on if it actually wakes the baby or not.

DD we watched tv, chatted, had lights on reading and she was fine. DS not so much.

He sounds like an actual fiend from hell itself.

”He should be able to” my arse

Yes the noise and sometimes the light.. if the baby stirs he’s more likely to fully wake up from the light whereas if it’s dark and quiet he’ll usually go straight back to sleep.

Christ, he's being unreasonable.

Kudos to those with babies sleeping through TV. Wouldn't happen for my five month old either, though he tolerates a lamp for reading.

No you are not being unreasonable@WarmTurtle if he wants to watch tv he can downstairs. Babies are in the bedroom with us for such a short amount of time, he’ll be able to watch tv in bed again soon. I would risk it especially if you have spent time getting the baby to sleep in the first place.

Honestly, why are the first responses to posts like these often questioning the poster?
‘why would it wake the baby?’ Why do you THINK?! isn’t that obvious?

People respond on here just to be awkward and not provide any help at all.
If people really don’t understand surely they could just provide a bit of context ‘my children were deep sleepers, so I’m not sure why the tv would wake them up?’ Or ‘I don’t have children, could you explain why the tv would wake them up?’