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AIBU to be really really angry to come home and find my baby crying and my DH asleep

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pissyknickers · 30/07/2009 00:34

I've just been out for my first night out since having our baby 6 months ago. I went to a local restaurant (5 min walk away) with my NCT friends for dinner to celebrate my 40th birthday. I got home at 11.30 to find my baby screaming and my husband asleep in bed. I called him a despicable human being and fed her back to sleep. I went into his room (we sleep in seperate rooms as he has sleep apnoea and i can't sleep through the noise of his CPAP machine) to get the monitor thinking he'd slept through her crying which i was already fuming about (although i thought at that stage did prove what i'd always said about his ability to look after her if he sleeps through her crying) to find that he hadn't even taken the monitor upstairs with him.

He says he's only been in bed for about 20 mins, but i don't care whether that's true or not (and unlikely given he normally goes to bed at 10.30) as i'm just so upset that she's been left on her own crying. I've never left her to cry and it's been a concious decision not to. I feel like he's really let me down and can't be held resposible for her, i also feel really angry that he's spoiled my first night out.

I told him if she woke up anytime after 10.30 (the earliest she would have been due her next feed) that he could ring me and i'd come down. I hummed and hahed about ringing home all eveing but decided not to as i should trust him to look after her properly and i just feel absolutely furious that he didn't.

He says he's sick of me having a go at him, but i feel like there's just no excuse for going to bed without the monitor and leaving her to cry for god knows how long.

Am i being unreasonable to feel this angry. Can i trust him to ever look after properly again?

thanks for your advice

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pissyknickers · 30/07/2009 19:05

I think you're probably right, i suppose as all the women i know can do it i assume it will come naturally. Maybe why they start out wanting a boy to, as they think they'll know how to entertain them when they're older.

Anyway i'm going to drop it when he gets home as i've said everything i need to say about it to him this morning and you're all right in saying there's no point in going over and over it (he'll be suprised!).

thanks again, it's helped put it in perspective.

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hotbot · 30/07/2009 19:30

if it helps - for the 1st year dh was crap..really crap i felt alone and depressed but he just didnt know how to handle a little one and looking back i know that i was poss very impatient and yes a tad unreasonable altho i couldnt see it at the time.
now she is 2.5 he is fab, such good fun, so there is hope

littlebrownmouse · 30/07/2009 19:36

I often slept through mine crying
They're fine now!

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