I hate DH saying he's tired!

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Just that really...

Rant over.

Me too. I want to scream back 'SO AM I, I'VE BEEN AT WORK TOO AND I'M GROWING A FUCKING BABY'!

And I've been awake all night with either heartburn, cramp or just a wriggling baby inside me.

Oh, and dealt with DD's frequent screams in the night.

I see, my rant wasn't quite over!

Totally agree. They really should just SHUT UP!
My DH may work longer hours than me (his choice) but he sleeps - every night, without fail - like a log! Whereas I average around 3 hours due to pelvic pain, peeing, heartburn and the moves of the nightraver (my new name for baby, as he seems to party non-stop between hours of midnight and 7!)

Wait until the baby is here and you've been up in the night! Trust me if you hate it now you'll be then!

Joining in for shameless rant... Unemployed DH who moans how tired he is all the bloody time, to me, his pregnant working wife that does (albeit infrequent now) night wakings with our 17month old.

My DH and DF both had the GALL to tell me they were tired about a week after DS2 was born.

I referred them to the great quote about Ginger Rogers - she did everything Fred Astaire did, backwards in high heels. When they looked baffled I explained quite loudly that everything they were doing in terms of dealing with broken sleep, cross toddler etc, I was doing twice as much of, whilst bleeding and lactating at the same time.

Then I gave them The Look.

I am now officially always the tiredest person in the house and people are only allowed to mention their own paltry tiredness if they preface it with the phrase "Obviously I am nowhere near as tired as Grumpla, but...."

It helps me feel a lot less stabbyresentful to have this acknowledged.

Men will never understand :(

Ok so if there's one thing worse than DH saying how tired he is, then it's MIL telling me how tired he must be, because "he has such a long day". Um excuse me, I get home 2 hours before him, but I leave for work 1 1/2 hours before him AND I'm growing a baby!!!! (am lucky though, DH really doesn't moan at all!)

Aaaaaaaagh! Blushingmare, that must be so annoying!

Fuck yes. Grumpla I might make it THE LAW for my DH (or anyone else) to add "but obviously not nearly as much as Badgerina" suffix EVERYTIME he says he's tired. I just want to scream "HELLO!!! I'M GROWING A PERSON IN MY WOOOOOOOOOOOOOMB!!!!!!!!!!" But I don't. I smile sweetly. And seethe.

Sorry Grumpla but your quotes epic i'm stealing it for future reference. :) x

I'm so glad I'm not the only one feeling like this - I thought I was being an unreasonable miserable cow! DP is in the Army & realistically I no his days are mental and he would be really tiered, but every time we speak he groans about it and it really pisses me off! And don't even get me started about when he comes home for a weekend and falls asleep on the sofa!!!

Yep me too DH works but chooses to go in early because he is 'awake' such a bloomind martyr. I am a SAHM but with a 2 year old toddler boy it is hardly lik eI have chance to sleep or rest properly during the day and I am am 35 weeks pregnant with High BP.

He has the gall to come home and fall asleep on the sofa about 8 after his dinner then complains when he is wide awake at 2am or if I dare to get out of bed to wee one of 5 times a night.

He mentioned last night he was only getting 4/5 hours a night! I said add that to the 3 hours he is having on the sofa and he is a lucky so and so I never get more than 6 and then never unbroken so humph!

I hear you sisters. Although I hate a lot of things right now in the first trimester. I am a first trimester hater. I hate people that just have irritating voices on the tube. Normally I am a lover not a fighter. But anyone who dares say they are tired in front of a woman who has to urinate 4 times a night, is manufacturing a small person and deals with a wandering pre-schooler every night can frankly fuck right off.

My DP said as we went up to bed early because he was 'so tired', 'Can you try and lay still tonight so I can get a decent night's sleep?' I didn't even realise I knew some of the expletives that came out of my mouth.

Lola how did you manage not to kill him? I hope you wriggles extra hard last night and got up for seven pees.
I am fed up of hearing how tired dh is. And how hard nightshift is an how he only got 7 hours sleep yesterday.
Get fucking over it and try growing a human, looking after a toddler, working and managing building a house fuckwit!
Arghhh grrrr grrrrrrr

My DH is exactly the same. His daily routine is get up at 6:30, feed the dogs and clean their toilet area, go to work for 8:15, home at 6:45... then he sits on his arse watching crap on tv until 10:30 before bed.

I on the other hand get up at 7, walk the dogs for an hour, hoover, clean and generally tidy the whole house. Walk to work for 12, work 5 hours, walk home (both of these walks are 30 mins) usually more cleaning, then cook his dinner for when he gets in. The first words out of his mouth are always 'what's for dinner?' followed by 'I'm tired'. I turned the pans off and refused to finish cooking the other day. I'm 31 weeks pregnant and he's tired. He actually had the cheek to say to me, 'well I do more than you in a day because I work longer.' MEN!

I had a difficult and long labour with my first baby. All day Wednesday, all night, and all day Thursday. On the Thursday morning, DH phoned his and my parents, but told them not to come to the hospital, because it would be a long wait. PIL came anyway, and had to wait till about 6pm for me to finally deliver. FIL still says to me (with no hint of irony) that it was a really long day for them, and they were really tired.

I just popped in to agree, that pisses me off too.. I told him so the other night.. poor thing.

Totally agree with you ladies and my DH has pissed me off with this for my 2 previous pregnancies and has now started with this one. What really gets me is he says he is tired because he "woke up at 3am and couldn't get back to sleep". WHY NOT??? It is not as if you are growing a person. If you can't get back to sleep then you can't have been that tired in the first place. Idiot.