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February 2026 Babies 🇬🇧

Partner not a clue?

Anyone else’s partner just not understand babies? This is our second and I don’t remember him being like this with our first. But our 6 week old won’t settle with him at all since he went back to work a week after he was born. My partner constantly gets angry and annoyed that our baby is “too attached to his mother” and that he should just be able to sleep in his Moses basket without needing to be held or walked around and that our 4 year old should also just be able to go to sleep on his own. He always talks to them but like he’s blaming me while talking to them like I’ve made them want me more than him and it’s honestly starting to get to me. He wants them both to act like they’re teenagers and not a newborn or young child! I’m breastfeeding alongside formula this time and he gets mad that the baby keeps trying to shuffle down to ‘his boob’ to find comfort and will shout out that he doesn’t have one like it’ll make a difference 🙄 he even said that i need to choose between boob or bottle because it’s harder on him to settle the baby but I would’ve thought being able to give a bottle too should’ve helped him bond, but he only does a feed once every couple of days anyway