just a moan - sleep and blaming the other half

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days of sleepless night and my 8 week old cried all night last night and is still crying after waking at 5am this morning, my 18 month old daughter is being as good as gold this morning but every time i look at her i feel guilty about her coping on her own all the time whilst i try to calm baby. and I am trying to avoid shouting at the cat who keeps trying to sit on my knee for strokes (grrrr) and my other half who helpfully "brought" my daughter to me whilst I was trying to calm my screaming 8 week old this morning and then defended himself by saying "well she was awake what did you expect me to do" before rushing off to work extra quick at 6.45am. The problem is on a logical level i cannot blame him but in the absence of sleep these tiny things just feel like everything is ganging up against you. end of moan

Chin up chicken.
Any of us with more than one child and a useless husband have been here. I have 2 boys and a useless hubby, it takes all his might to occasionally change a wet nappy... Grrr.

My DH has always been out the house by 7.15 am and practically used to skip up the steps.. GIT!

You WILL get thru it and you WILL be fine.
My boys are now 15 months and 4 years and its amazing but the first few months were hard as hell, why the hell I am thinking of another argh??!!

TreeHugger thanks so much for replying. My husband has probably changed in total less than half a dozen nappies in aggregate for both of our babies since my first born was born.....
Yes he works very hard and tries hard not to point out the couple of things from my to do list which I don't manage to do during the day but sometimes I think it would be so much easier if we could live apart and get back together occasionally on the rare occasions when both children are asleep (if that ever happens). At least I could muddle through without him watching me or his rare attempts at assistance.
But as I said above, he is no doubt not that bad, it is just the lack of sleep talking and my not being able to soothe a very windy baby who screams every time he burps, farts, fills his nappy etc for several hours on end.
I am trying not to imagine this will go on forever but sometimes it feels like it will. Thanks for listening tho, it really helps. Your boys sound great, are they very boistrous and how do you keep your energy levels up to run after them all the time? well done you