Hi all, I’m 12 weeks pp now and I’ve started to resent my partner quite a bit and I feel awful for it.. he does what he can to help around the house, he’s working so I can have a full year off maternity, he takes the baby and does the evening routine so I get time to myself but I do notice he gets more alone time than I do and I envy him for it. At the same time I love being with my baby too and sometimes I will join bath time before his dad takes him to bed with his bottle (I EBF throughout the night and day apart from this one feed). He obviously gets full nights sleep and I haven’t since I was 20 weeks pregnant so whenever he says he’s tired it infuriates me! He was fantastic when I was pregnant and postpartum when he wasn’t working but it’s almost like he sees me as ‘back’ but I’m still breastfeeding and with the baby all day on my own. I have also just started my first period so not sure if it’s my hormones but everything he says annoys me, I can’t even think about being affectionate or intimate at all 😠What do I do?
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I feel this way sometimes too and we’re formula feeding. I’ve had 1 night full sleep since the 1st trimester and that’s only because I was 8 days pp, hadnt slept in over 24 hours, ended up in A&E so they medicated me.
What you need to do is have an honest and frank conversation with him about how you’re feeling. Get it all out on the table and realise it’s you and him against a problem - and not you against him.

Everything you said resonate with me completely... from the outside it can look like I'm back to normal (ie not pregnant/freshly pp anymore) but he really struggles to understand that my time, my mind and body does not belong to me anymore. Everything is for the baby. I can't just shower or use the toilet whenever I want/need, whereas he goes to work, goes running, gets to think about something else etc. It is hard to accept.
We tried evening bottle with him but baby was not having it at all and only wanted me. So I'm basically doing morning, day, evening and night 😅 it really infuriated me when on top of that I had to wash the pump/bottles parts, so got annoyed multiple times but now he does it without me having to ask!
So I do feel similar but I believe with time and really honest conversations about who needs what and when, it will get better! 🫶
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