Partner doesn’t hear our baby crying at night

My fiancé doesn’t hear our 3 week old crying at night and it’s really starting to irritate me that he can sleep so hard he doesn’t hear him screaming crying every 3 hours. What should I do??

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Wake him up if you want him up with the baby. They don’t have motherly instincts like us and some people just sleep harder than others. My son is about to be 2 he sleeps with us and his sister sleeps in the bassinet in our room, she could be screaming & he still won’t wake up

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My husband sleeps through everything. The only way not to get frustrated is tell your partner what you need from him and let him know you’ll be waking him up to support you throughout the night. I’m sure he will be completely understanding.

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Same! I literally push him until he wakes up and say “your baby is crying and needs you”!

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Honestly I just got used to it. My man sleeps so hard that he'll straight up sit up, look me in the eye and have a conversation with me, and he's still 100% asleep and doesn't remember any of it in the morning. I do not need that taking care of our twins in the middle of the night 🤣 so I've always done bed time and throughout the night by myself, and he let's me take fat naps and let's me sleep in on the weekends! They're almost a year old and it was frustrating in the beginning, but then I woke him up to help me a few times and realized that was even worse than him continuing to sleep 🤣 good luck mama! I hope you find something that works for all of you(:

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My partner is like this. We got an alarm for deaf people (bed shaker) that literally feels like an earthquake. I can press a button on my side of the bed and it does its thing and i loudly call his name simultaneously. Has worked so far. Though i have learned he is not actually awake and wont get the babies until he is physically standing up. Otherwise he will say "okay I'm getting up" and go right back to sleep

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Well for me at the beginning of PP my bf pulled all nighters for me to sleep because he knew himself too well. 5 months in the way we handle nights is i still do the feeds but he has to get me my bottles for the feeds since we co-sleep. I get him up once my son starts moving to let me know hes getting hungry. Its still a struggle to get him up but he gets it done. We also do this cause he needs to sleep for his early waking job. Hopefully you guys find something like this to help where instead of just one person doing everything you can get dad to give you everything you need for the night wakes and you wont have a potential problem where ur husband falls asleep with yalls child.

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My sister (youngest, 24) has two kids, 4 & 1, and i (oldest, 30) just have my one who’s 6mo old right now, so i ask her for advice or call her to vent about things sometimes. Well im tired of her turning around and telling my other family members that I’m “losing my sh*t.” Literally have not lost my sh*t nor have i ever freaked out to her about my baby, i just call her to talk and tell her what stage my baby is in or talk through how im feeling, but she chooses to tell people that im like a complete nutcase or something which worries me that my family is going to start being judgmental about me as a mother or looking at me funny like I’m some fragile ticking time bomb.

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i just want someone to talk to😔😔😔😔

when things get hard i have nothing not any support from my partner im convinced he doesn’t even love me anymore but thats another story
I have a 3 yo and a 2yo that are in bed sleeping only just now. I have a 1 yo that’s been sleeping from 8 o’clock to 10 o’clock. I just gave her her milk and she would’ve gone back to sleep if it wasn’t that
I lost her dummy earlier in the day when I went out
so now she won’t go back to sleep and she won’t accept any of the other dummy’s i have!😔😔and it’s 10 o’clock and I’m gonna be up until 3 o’clock with her and when she does want to go to sleep i won’t have any dummy to give her she will accept and she won’t sleep without it i just wanna cry 😔i have nobody to talk to and i feel so alone i get no support from anybody i’m so tired and i don’t feel well to top it off😔

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