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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not a big deal.  You two were creating more communication than needed with BOTH of you getting up and walking the halls and using the bathroom while baby cries.  This is a one parent thing to handle.  While annoying, when you told her you don’t need help she went back to her room, right? Just move on. Hotel next time [/quote]

If I wake up in the middle of the night—whether it is because of a baby crying or a car alarm or my FIL rattling around in the kitchen straining turkey stock (a real thing that has happened to me at 4 a.m.)—I need to pee. So OP and DH probably needed to pee. Makes sense that OP would pee first, get back to the room to breastfeed, and then DH would pee.

I didn’t get the sense that they were both “walking the halls while baby cried.” OP peed while DH picked up baby and shushed/changed, then OP popped a boob in baby’s mouth while DH went to pee.

-np[/quote]

It is still two people up walking in the halls separately plus one baby crying.  They could have minimized this by just one parent waking.  The other one can pee after baby is back to sleep another time.  Just tell her no thanks to help in the hall.  Shouldn’t be a huge deal[/quote]

So two people are awakened by a baby crying, need to pee, and one should just…wait? For an arbitrary amount of time? So they can exit the room another time and risk waking the baby again, or waking ILs or the other spouse again?[/quote]

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