Husband being an annoying parent
My husband is annoying the crap out of me when it comes to being a parent! I love him as a husband. However, as a dad I’m just so fed up. Venting to see if anyone else’s partner has started acting this way….
When our daughter was born 4 and a half months ago he was loving it! Always helping always wanting to do and be the best dad. The first month of her life she was mainly formula fed because she wouldn’t latch. I would pump and try to give her as much of my breast milk I could, but my supply was low so we stuck to formula. At 3 weeks she finally latched and now at 4 and half months she’s almost fully breastfed (finally got my supply up 😊). We feed her formula bottles when we are out however she really dislikes it and sometimes doesn’t even take unless it’s expressed breast milk. Where I’m getting at is that my husband went from always wanting to feed her to now he has given up on even trying with a bottle because he sees she just wants to breastfeed. He has no patience with her crying and now just hands her off to me immediately and doesn’t even try to comfort her.
Also, he CONSTANTLY gives me crap for always giving her all my time. 🙄 Says just put her down….. I have a routine with her every night and he expects me just to put her down when HE wants because he wants some alone time without her. We share a room with her and he is not a quiet person. I usually breastfeed her until he falls asleep (then he is quite) let her fall asleep, hold her until she is in a deep sleep and then put her down in her bassinet) and she is asleep almost the whole night. I keep telling him this is for a season and right now she needs us..(ME)
This has now turned into him just always wanting her to stay home with my mother and he gets annoyed when we take her out. I always have to argue… “NO WE ARE BRINGING THE BABY” he makes it seem like such a hassle to bring her anywhere and it’s really upsetting. Our anniversary is in July and I had to argue that she’s breastfed and being away a week is just going to really have me not enjoy our vacation if I’m constantly worrying about our 6 month old and have to pump the whole time. I wish he wanted to enjoy our family and not try to keep her away. ALSO, when he does want to join in… it’s always random things that aren’t good for babies. & I find myself constantly arguing with him to keep our child safe. Him giving her blankets to play with in her bassinet…. And then doesn’t actually keep an eye on her🙄😡 says he wants to feed her baby food when she cries and not a bottle when baby food is not to supplement feeds. He gets mad at me for saying no and then we argue. It’s a never ending cycle of him not wanting to help period and then when he does he just makes things worse. If you are still reading this thank you! Just want to know if anyone has experienced parenthood like this and if so.. advice please! I’m losing my mind!
I can completely understand understand why you're annoyed, to me I feel like that would be infuriating and if he didnt listen to me telling him to stop laying her down with a blanket I would have the pediatrician explain to him why it's not safe and if he still didn't listen honestly I would probably leave 😬 I personally wouldnt deal with someone putting my child in harms way.. also him wanting you to put down your child that depends on you to live, just to get some alone time shows that he probably was not ready to have a kid. That is literally what babies need, their parents. Yes its okay to lay them down but that seems selfish of him..