Toddler tantrums... by DHs... trying to "parent" 🙄

[FluentRubyDog]

Lighthearted/venting thread. Contributions most welcome, if only to assure me I'm not alone.

DH has reached the tantruming level of a toddler needing a nap and a snack in the toy aisle in the run up to Christmas... over parenting our newborn.

Examples include:

He wants to change nappies... alone... I always interfere... he wants to do it on his own... BUT WHY AM I NOT HELPING HIM?!?

He wants more skin to skin... why am I doing so many more skin to skin than him... it is not fair... hand him the baby over... 5 minutes later: I'm too hot/need a loo/what's going on over there...

Nurse - leave this supplement until the last of the feed, because it's rather thick and the feed will take longer. DH pops it in just as the feed starts... "WHY IS THIS TAKING SO LONG? THE BABY MUST BE DELAYING IT DELIBERATELY!!!"

Anyway, definitely feels like I'm parenting two DC at the moment one may or may not get the sack soon if he doesn't shape up.

Please, oh please, cheer me up with your examples, I think my nose needs a tea spurting moment or two...

Hopeful bump...

You want examples of what? Your husband sounds annoying tbh I couldn't put up with that shit

What's the point of this thread ? Just go rant to him.

He sounds awful... my DH was nothing like this with a newborn and was supportive to me above anything, so I can't help with examples.

Oh OP, I suspect this is one of those threads that is meant to be lighthearted but doesn’t translate very well

I have no examples cos I wouldn't have bred with such an incompetent twat. Sorry
Why does he need skin to skin. That's a bit weird

Yeah… I’m sorry but I don’t think you’re going to get the responses you want to this thread.

Hope you’re ok and congratulations on your baby xxxx

OP do you have a newborn? it’s a bloody difficult time.

I think your post is meant to be lighthearted but I feel like it’ll be taken the wrong way.

i do remember when my son was a baby my husband used to pick really random outfits for the him. There were days he’d look like Worzel Gummidge 😂

I would maybe, maybe have patience with some of those things but why the hell is he demanding you hand the baby over so he can have skin to skin?! You are your baby's mother, you birthed him/her, the baby knows your smell. He needs you more than he needs his dad. And you need the oxytocin to help your womb contract and reduce the chance of ppd.

I can't believe he's insisting he gets as much skin to skin as you. I'm enraged on your behalf

Ahhh skin to skin, DH insisted on having skin to skin contact......after baby's bath. I did warn him that chances are someone (him) would end up covered in poo...........after the third incident he decided (and happily shared his fantastic idea with me ) maybe put on baby's nappy after bath and before skin to skin. Didn't seem to cop on that I had happily been poo free all the time.

Look, I know already where this is mist likely going... not exactly blinkering myself. But I need to get through the maternity leave and ensure I can stand on my own two feed and provide for DD before I pull the trigger.

I was just looking for some laughs in the meantime. Maybe I was wrong.

@mandi73 thank you, that's exactly what I was looking for 🤣🤣🤣

Oh bless you OP - I think if you’d provided examples of your DH being a bit daft or clueless eg putting baby in funny outfits or putting nappies on back to front then you’d probably have got the solidarity and funny anecdotes you’re after.

The examples you’ve used have make your DH sound really unpleasant - both to you (who are postpartum and need extra love and care) and your baby (who is a helpless newborn). Do you have any family nearby you could spend some time with?

Years ago .dexh .."I am perfectly capable of doing a nappy change"...

10 mins later nappy falls of baby...cus he'd put it back to front and not fastened sticky tabs very well...

He said " well you should have checked my work, I'm new to all this you know"

It was a first baby for both of us and no I'm not a nursery nurse or done any baby sitting or had younger siblings to practice on.

The look I gave him ...

@Theredjellybean EXACTLY the point!

@MindatWork can you imagine ANYONE being willing to take a mum and baby on for the next 8 months? Anyway, I'll get through it, he's back to work next week. A bit sad that I can't wait - feel like I will finally be able to relax and enjoy my baby.

My lovely husband doing midnight feed ( no experience of babies) complained that 2 week old baby was ‘greedy’. It seemed that he had given him his feed and baby had sat there smacking his lips, so husband assumed he was still hungry and gave him another feed.

Very unhappy to be covered in sick minutes later. Got a dummy next day.

Got dummy and then husband spent the next 2 years putting the dummy into his mouth EVERY time he spit it out! No amount of explaining dummy was a comforter for when he needed comfort, rather than essential breathing apparatus.

Still 20 years later, he has proved to be a wonderful dad and they have the most amazing bond.

Vest must always go on back to front.

One side of nappy must be giving child a wedgie to ensure poo/pee goes everywhere.

Once Nappie comes off it must immediately be thrown on floor, no need to close it up.

If asked to do a simple task ie grab a dummy from the kitchen, it must be done at the slowest pace known to mankind.

Fall asleep and start snoring in the middle of child screaming hysterically. This one is a special talent.

Never ever wake up to screaming child. See special talent above.

Phone is more important than childcare.

It's fairly common, across my friends anyway, that men are fairly useless in the 1st year.

My DH got over-enthusiastic with the Sudocrem at nappy change, and the nappy tabs wouldn’t stick together… so he sellotaped him into the nappy 🤣🤣
DS was quite a martyr to trapped wind and DH fancied himself as the expert wind remover… he rubbed the pattern off my favourite babygro within 2 weeks - no pattern left at all on the back of it!!