Frustrated with my husband

I’m a full time SAHM. When I’m home with my baby, I’m up between 6-7am, we play, I get her dressed for the day, we do solid foods multiple times a day, I make sure she naps etc. when my husband is home on the weekend, he gets up with her but then all day is just focused on making her sleep as frequently as possible and unless I say something, she only gets a bottle. It’s incredibly frustrating because I really appreciate that he is hands on and gives me the chance to get a break on the weekends, but on the other hand I feel like he really doesn’t do anything with her. And on top of it, by 10am, he’s complaining that he’s tired and frustrated that the baby is being fussy. I’m not expecting him to stick to my schedule but I just feel like he doesn’t try much. He doesn’t really try to keep her entertained long (maybe only once in the morning) or help extend her wake windows and is just constantly saying she needs a nap. I’m just frustrated and don’t know how to bring it up without making him feel like I don’t appreciate what he does do.
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It’s annoying. It’s also more than my husband does and I work full time in the office and get saddled with all the housework. I have 2 toddlers.

I feel your pain . My bf wants to help with our 8 month old as lil as possible. Whenever he wants to eat or do anything i need to get her but somehow im able to do those thing while having her . He never ask me if i need a break and i feel guilty for asking for one so i get no breaks . It can be exhausting especially when dad is living in the home . We do both work so he does have her some parts of the day but he just lets he watch tv all day which i don’t like . Men can be very frustrating, they use the fact that we are women we should have baby more but we also need a lil time to ourselves.

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