Partner doesn't wake up to baby crying

I don't know if anyone is in the boat because everyone I've spoken to about this can't relate, just wondering if there is a solution. At night, my partner never hears our baby cry even though the cot is in our room. The baby can shout and scream or cry for an extended period of time and my partner doesn't even stir in his sleep he's such a heavy sleeper. The result is that I've had to every night shift with the baby since he was born because my partner would not hear the baby cry if he was left alone with him, I've not had one night of uninterrupted sleep in 7.5 months, now I'm ill and feel I can't recover and rest properly as I'm getting up multiple times in the night still. Is anyone else's partner like this where they're such a heavy sleeper they don't hear their own baby at all? Or was anyone's partner like this and they somehow got around this? If so, what did you do? The weird thing is that my partner will wake up if I say his name, yet crying, shouting, screaming doesn't?? 🤔
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Never heard this before . My husband was such a heavy sleeper but once baby come he woke up right away . I mean why do you do the shift alone with baby ? If he won’t hear the baby cry then wake him up to help ? Hope this helps

Yes my partner is the same he doesn’t wake up, it’s always me that’s up during the night unless I physically wake him up and tell him to go sort it. Proper annoys me

It's very common unfortunately it's because their subconscious does hear it but goes "she's got this for me" and allows him to carry on sleeping. I had this until I was kept in hospital overnight for gallstones and my partner was in charge of the kids and now the slightest noise from them at night he's straight up on high allert

Id be kicking him so he wakes up then he can go help??

My husband 9/10 doesn't wake either but if I want him to go, I just wake him up myself

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