I am exhausted with a sick baby and husband is no help.

[Anonymous]

I’ve had a migraine all day and my son has his first stomach flu. I have piles of laundry to fold and have been wiping and cleaning vomit and poop off the floor. My husband has to go into work today to finish a project and I called him at 12 begging him to come home and bring chicken soup and pedialyte for our son. He brushed me off the first time. I called back and begged him to come home and help.

He comes home and “helps” by sitting on the couch with our son while I make soup for our son and he watches a movie. He then falls asleep and asks me to wake him in “15 minutes.” It’s been over an hour and I tried waking him up and he asked me to let him rest. I asked him if he’s sick too and he says no. He just wants to take a NAP.

My eyes are so puffy they’re nearly swollen shut. I am so sleep deprived and emotionally exhausted. It feels like I have another child in the house. My head is about to split open and I have no one to call and help.

[Anonymous]

I will tell you this. You have not got it bad. Try doing this with twins or three under three.

Your husband has a job that pays for you and the baby to stay home and be sick. Let him sleep and work.

Seriously.

And yes, I'm a mom who had 2 under 2 and all 4 of us vomiting at once!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will tell you this. You have not got it bad. Try doing this with twins or three under three.

Your husband has a job that pays for you and the baby to stay home and be sick. Let him sleep and work.

Seriously.

And yes, I'm a mom who had 2 under 2 and all 4 of us vomiting at once!

NP. How do you know that OP doesn't work? She's home on a Saturday--that's not atypical. and congratulations, you win the "I have it harder than you" prize.

OP, sorry that's going on. This too shall pass!

[Anonymous]

Just go to bed. Tell husband you are going to bed. Shut your door. First time moms never understand this concept. Just take the time and let DH figure it out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will tell you this. You have not got it bad. Try doing this with twins or three under three.

Your husband has a job that pays for you and the baby to stay home and be sick. Let him sleep and work.

Seriously.

And yes, I'm a mom who had 2 under 2 and all 4 of us vomiting at once!

NP. How do you know that OP doesn't work? She's home on a Saturday--that's not atypical. and congratulations, you win the "I have it harder than you" prize.

OP, sorry that's going on. This too shall pass!

Op here, I work full time. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will tell you this. You have not got it bad. Try doing this with twins or three under three.

Your husband has a job that pays for you and the baby to stay home and be sick. Let him sleep and work.

Seriously.

And yes, I'm a mom who had 2 under 2 and all 4 of us vomiting at once!

I’m sorry you hate your life.

[Anonymous]

FFS I’m so tired of these “my husband doesn’t help” posts. Seriously ladies. You married the guy. The MRA trolls will be out in force saying you got what you deserved overlooking decent somewhat nerdy guys etc.

Suck it up. You wanted tall. You wanted funny. You wanted earnings. You had to know how he was. I knew. I deal with it.

[Anonymous]

Make a list of the things you need to do in the next 12 hours. Sit down with him and say here’s what I can given I’m sick and need to rest. And say, I’d love for you to handle these items so I can sleep. Sometimes men just can’t wrap their heads around what needs to be done.

[Anonymous]

How old is your kid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just go to bed. Tell husband you are going to bed. Shut your door. First time moms never understand this concept. Just take the time and let DH figure it out.

+1

I don’t understand this. How are you not in his face saying “get your a** off this couch and go do the laundry covered in feces and clean the baby. I have two skewers poking through my head and I must lie down for four hours.”. Don’t believe all these new age theories that you should always be “respectful and understanding”. Sometimes you have to hit the man-baby with a proverbial two-by-four. I do this rarely, but when I do my husband knows that this is not up for debate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will tell you this. You have not got it bad. Try doing this with twins or three under three.

Your husband has a job that pays for you and the baby to stay home and be sick. Let him sleep and work.

Seriously.

And yes, I'm a mom who had 2 under 2 and all 4 of us vomiting at once!

I think you must’ve vomited up your compassion as well while you were at it.

[Anonymous]

Wake him and tell him that you don't feel good and you are going to lay down. He can take care of the sick child. FFS stand up for yourself or it will only get worse.

[Anonymous]

Try being a single parent

You’ll be fine

Trust me

- signed single parent mom

[Anonymous]

I just posted above

I’m not saying that to be mean or crass

I’m saying this because sometimes you don’t know how strong you are till you can do it alone

When my child and I were sick (dog sick) last week, I have no one

I have absolutely no one, I had to go to work SICK plus take him to daycare.

Plus cook and everything else


You can do it, trust me I promise

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will tell you this. You have not got it bad. Try doing this with twins or three under three.

Your husband has a job that pays for you and the baby to stay home and be sick. Let him sleep and work.

Seriously.

And yes, I'm a mom who had 2 under 2 and all 4 of us vomiting at once!

I think you must’ve vomited up your compassion as well while you were at it.

The thing is that pp sort of has a point. There are plenty of times where a sick parent has to take care of sick kids. OP only has 1 baby.