Struggling

My husband works and does so much for me and my baby girl. However I get annoyed every time he hops on a video game he usually plays for 1-2 hrs if she's still awake and has like 3+hrs of free time once she goes to sleep (i co/contact sleep). The last time I was able to have actual free time was last month when I tried to turn some onesies into shirts for baby girl to sleep in- and I wasn't able to finish them and haven't picked them up since lol. The only free time I get is while she's napping right next to me where I can't move an inch or breathe too deeply or she'll wake up, or when I shower. Crafting used to be my outlet and now if I were ever to tell him that I need to craft I don't even know what I would do or where to start I just sit there and stare.... just losing myself and I'm struggling with it. Does anyone else feel the same way? What do I do?

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I can relate! Apart from the cosleeping my situation was very similar when my daughter was little. Keep talking with your husband, keep communicating openly about what the both of you need/want and try to accommodate for both of your needs.
Eventually you'll get to a place where the both of you are happy (or happy enough) with how things are going

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Sounds like you have a great guy, maybe a little communication could clear things up? Ask if he would be willing to spend those couple hours that she’s awake connecting as a family or if he’d take over as primary parent for an hour or two in the evenings (maybe even roll away when she first goes down to prioritize some one on one intimacy with each other if she lets you!) and then he can play his games and relax when you cosleep? Idk, seems a compromise like that would be ideal to allow everyone proper time to decompress.

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The thing is that your man needs time for himself too, and if it's gaming then that's his way of taking a break from everything and doing something he enjoys as part of his happiness.
As long as he has taken care of baby's needs first, the household needs, family needs etc.

For us women/ mothers we need to focus on our self and find our own way of taking a break and doing something we enjoy.

It's about keeping balance in your relationship and taking care of our stress.

I know it gets busy feeling like it's never ending when caring for a young child, we still need to prioritize ourselves too with self care & hobbies etc. we just got to fit it in our routine around baby/children.

As our baby starts getting older, routines change and we slowly begin to be able to have more time for ourselves in the day when our child can be a little more independent, even if it is independent play time, then we can also do something for ourselves alongside them while also watching them.

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You need to go out while baby sleep and he on his game. Even for an hour will help u recharge. That helped me so much post partum.

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I’m starting to feel the same my fiancee was nothing but supportive during my pregnancy but the last 2 months he fractured his ankle so I had to go to work for us both until I was past my due date because my job is also a** holes he quit his job and started working somewhere making more now that the baby was born but I do everything overnight so he can go to work fully rested and when he comes home he gets on his game. If I ever ask her to take the baby or watch her for anything he will no problem but it makes me feel jealous that he gets to watch her in her swing while gaming when I clean all day while she’s asleep and then cook clean pump or shower when he’s watching her. He is working a lot he worked almost 60 hours just last week and it was his first week at this new job so I wannabe understanding but it’s discouraging when I have yet to have a single day that wasn’t being with my daughter cleaning healing etc.

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