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First time mums

Is this a manipulation tac tic from my partner?

Baby is 7 weeks old, I’ve been tripple feeding due to weight issues/tongue tie…I’ve been doing all the nights on my own. My partner quite often sleeps in the spare room and gets full nights sleeps. Even if he sleeps in bed with me, he sleeps through baby’s cries. Even if I try to wake him up to ask him to change a nappy while I sort my pumps out, he doesn’t even wake up from me.

So anyways, tonight I kindly asked my partner if he could have the baby just for the first half of the night because I’m ill & I didn’t get any sleep yesterday. It was awful, baby was so unsettled I think she had tummy pains she hadn’t pooped in a long time. And on top of this, his parents have given me a rotten cold. So I just want to get a solid block of sleep even if it’s just 3 hours. Just to try to recover. This is the first time I’ve ever asked for anything.

His response was “yeah okay but I’m not gonna go bed then I’m just gonna stay up all night on the iPad, I’m not taking my pillows, I’d rather not sleep at all than get broken sleep”….i just said “no you have work in the morning just try to get some sleep” and i mentioned that I have to do the broken sleep day in, day out. He then started shouting at me saying “why are you kicking off at me just be grateful that I’m doing this for you”…….
Excuse me. Grateful? 😆
And I wasn’t kicking off I calmly just said this is what I’m expected to do every day and wake up feeling amazing the next day.

I feel like that’s his way of making me feel guilty & awful, so that I never ask him again.

Today all he’s kept saying is “what the f is wrong with you today” just purely because I’m unwell & not as energised.
Mate I’ve been surviving off no sleep for 7 weeks & now I’ve caught a bug that’s completely wiped me out. Even when he comes come from work, he can’t settle baby. She screams in his arms endlessly. The second I take her, she’s silent. I’m the only one who can soothe her. So I don’t even get a break when he comes home. And now I’m ill from your selfish parents & having to continue as normal & not sleeping.
But I have to be upbeat and happy 24/7….when you physically cannot do ONE night of broken sleep with the baby ?

All I did was try to tell him to put himself In my shoes and understand how that sounds and feels. I’ve never said to him “just be grateful that I’m doing this for you” when I’ve been up all night with his daughter & when he is ill.

When I mentioned to him that this feels a bit manipulative, he stormed out of the room and slammed the door. He didn’t want to hear it. But I do feel like he does that so that he gets his own way.

I’m really really struggling postpartum. Like badly. I don’t have a village. I don’t have any close family or friends. He’s all I have. And this is the treatment I’m getting. All I wanted was a couple of hours while I’m unwell.

During this argument he was giving it all this sarcasm like “are you ever wrong, you can’t do anything wrong can you”.
Feel like he’s just been so disrespectful.

Every evening he also moans that dinner isn’t ready soon enough. He’s never just gone and cooked a meal us. If baby is glued to me and he is free, I don’t see why he can’t make some food if he’s so hungry. Sometimes I feel like I’m taking care of 2 kids.