Open plan living with a small baby and a tired husband

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How do you make it work?

We have an open plan living/dining room and a three month old.
DH is watching a film, I am feeding dd.
She snortles
He turns the volume up
She finishes and grizzles briefly till The Burp
He turns the volume up more
I put her down and she coos happily in the bouncy chair
More volume

We only have one television.

Do I have to closet myself with dd in the (frankly pokey) nursery? Build an extension? Banish dh to the shed? Buy ear defenders? What am I missing?

agree with all the others.. a three month old baby is NOTHING in the noise department compared to a whining 12 month old, a shouty 2 year old and a non stop "why?, why?" 3 year old and a chatty 4 year old. He needs to get use to it now and change HIS behaviour to accommodate the baby. Don't you dare change YOURS (or your baby's)

Christ what did he expect when you had a child?

Peace and quiet from then on????

Rip the bloody volume button off the controller!!!!