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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So my husband is refusing to help out at night with baby and says since he has work (during my maternity leave) he needs sleep. We have had a number of conversations and he refuses to take one feeding shift (like 1am or 2am) he said he will do the morning (5am) but I'm an early riser and that will not help relieve the sleepless nights. Our son is pretty nocturnal still and is up the majority of the night.

How did you split your feeding shifts? I'm sleep deprived and need a solution. I am definitely starting to resent him sleeping through my sleeplessness nights which is not good for our relationship. [/quote]

I'll be honest. So, during my mat leave, I all the night feedings (and since I'm being honest, I would put baby in bed to nurse. I had a bassinnet next to the bed too) and dh would do the early diaper change or whatever when he got up-and get the other kids up and ready-so I'd sleep in!

I'm an early riser typically, but this worked well during the leave, because he could get the sleep he needed to work, and I got a good stretch of sleep by sleeping later than I usually do.

I took 12 weeks. Then, dh took 4 (you can use fmla within the first 12 months). So for my first month back to work, I didn't have to do any early morning stuff, he got up and handled stuff while I nursed baby and got out the door. By the end of all this, she was old enough that she slept decently and in the end, neither of us were badly sleep deprived.[/quote]

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