Yes, it IS too much to ask...

[Indadhanu]

So I shouldn't complain about the fact that DH went to bed at 9pm last night with Miss M, and then I finally got to bed around 11 after cleaning up the kitchen, making his lunch etc, then she woke up at 11.40 and didn't go back to sleep until 2am and it was ME that had to get up with her.. then I got kicked and shoved by both aricyn and miss m until we all got out of bed at 6.30?

You can complain, that does suck! You can't complain about the regular sleep-ins though

[Lulu]

Hun, don't give Shel a sleep in anymore. She just doesn't deserve it xoxoxo

[Willow]

:yeahthat:

[fionas]

Leasha, what does she say when you discuss this? Does she agree to do it then just huff and puff when it comes to the crunch?

I'd also NOT be giving her a lie-in. She needs to understand that baby = less sleep for everyone and there needs to be a bit of give and take. At the moment it's all take on her part.

[Jakabella]

Oh Leash... I have no advice either!! Sorry that you cant have your sleep in. Your welcome to crash here anytime with Jazz and I will get up to her and you can sleep ALL DAY..

Kate xox

[Heaven]

I wouldn't be giving her a sleep in!!

[Bathsheba]

Oh dear Maybe try pointing out that if you could get a bit of quality sleep then you would be a better partner as well as mummy. My DH has learnt this... and now I get at least 1 night a weeks deep proper sleep. Shell can contribute to your sleep deprivation and have an understandably psychotic partner or she can absorb a bit of the sleep loss and have a calmer partner... she can't have both. I hope I'm not out of line by saying that maybe Shell's empathy would be increased if she had the next baby? Sometimes people don't get it until they have walked in the shoes... I know my DH will probably never be a SAHD but thankfully it doesn't have to come to that for him to feel a bit of compassion for my sleep loss.

*more hugs*

[boobaloo]

hey leash, without causing insult, i was sorta wonderig the same thing as bathsheba, that maybe she doesn't feel this responsibility as the baby is not 'hers'... oh god, that isn't meant to sound offensive, i just didn't really know how to put it.

but basically, you need to sit shell down and remind her that you guys went into this parenting thing as a partnership, and that she needs to do some of the hard stuff too - it's not just up to you to be sleep deprived and manky. when i have been feeling this way with dp, i remind him that i am not a single parent, and that i expect some help sometimes.

hope it all looks up and you get a decent sleep xoxo

[onthefly]

Yeah, she doesn't need a sleep in if she sleeps all night.

[AngelPunks]

Hun, don't give Shel a sleep in anymore. She just doesn't deserve it xoxoxo

:yeahthat:

If she can't let you have one night of decent sleep then, honestly, she doesn't deserve to sleep in.

If you want a night away - you're more than welcome down here with me for the night - with our without BubbaJazz