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[quote=Anonymous]We have a 6 month old DD who sleeps in a crib in our room. DH works weekdays and I work weekends, so our rule has always been whoever doesn't have work the next day takes care of her at night. That's worked well for us until recently, when DD became mobile and decided crawling around her crib and talking to herself in the middle of the night is more fun than sleeping. Now most nights she wakes up around 1 or 2am and is up for hours. And, surprise, guess who doesn't take care of her on his nights? When it's my turn I get up and feed her as soon as she makes any noise so that hopefully she never fully wakes up to play and will go right back to sleep. On DH's nights he waits until she is yelling and screaming to feed her and by that point she's up for the night. I'm really sensitive to noise and have a hard time getting back to sleep so it becomes several hours of me laying in bed unable to sleep. DH, of course, can sleep through all of it.

I keep pushing for her to go into her own room but DH refuses. He claims it's for safety reasons but most nights she ends up in bed with us, and that's even more dangerous than being in her own room. This is the second night in a row I've been up since 2am. DH implies that I'm a shitty mother for wanting her in her own room and for being too exhausted to interact with her during the day, or says she's awake so much because I'm doing something wrong. I'm going to insist today that either she moves into another room or I am, but DH will throw a fit. I really don't know why he wants her in our room so badly.

Tell me I'm not being unreasonable. I don't know of any other couples where the DH insists the baby sleep in their room. [/quote]

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