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DH not really helping with newborn

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Jamjar2018 · 19/10/2019 22:33

I have a one month old and I’m starting to really resent my DH. We agreed as I’m EBF and he is a really light sleeper that he would sleep in a separate room. I don’t have an issue with this but he moans about being tired constantly. I walked round for 45mins earlier trying to settle the baby while my husband took a nap on the sofa. Takes the piss.
He constantly says the baby is annoying and is annoying him, and every-time he cries asks me what’s wrong with him and why he’s crying. He also hands him straight to me at the first sign of him getting fussy saying he wants me. So I’m always the one walking round with a crying baby.
We live 2hrs from my family due to his job so I’m really on my own and get no break at all. He is out 3 evenings a week (one for work and two for gym training), so I just feel like I’m doing it all by myself 95% of the time.
I don’t feel like I can raise it with him as he’s had this baby because I wanted one. He’s 9 years older and has teenage kids from a previous relationship so was well out of the baby stage. I feel like he really regrets it and in an argument would throw back that he’s only had this baby for me.

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Abouttimemum · 20/10/2019 15:04

My little boy is 6 months and is still hard work so it doesn’t pass particularly quickly unless you’re lucky to have an easy going little one. I couldn’t do it without my husband. He’s out with him now so I can have a few hours of peace before a new week starts! You definitely need to iron this out with him now. Speak to him calmly while the baby is settled and make sure you’re clear on what you need from him.

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