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[quote=Anonymous]Um...yea...I think he just doesn't have perspective. A full 8 hours of sleep and a lengthy solo daily workout are just not normal things to have when you're the parent of a new baby. I suppose if you had an enormous amount of household help, you could make it happen. But if you're just a normal family, it's just doesn't work that way. He should expect to be tired at this stage in life. It's a phase but it's a tough one. Parenting is 24/7. There is no such thing as pausing it for the night.

Also-- does he think sleep will just go back to normal when you go back to work in a few weeks? My babies went through so many phases of sleep and you just never knew when there would be a sleep regression, or developmental leap or illness that made sleep tough. And bigger question--what is he going to do if you have more kids? Sometimes they are both dealing with sleep stuff and both parents have to parent at night.

Can he plan to go to bed earlier? And then he could take that 4am-ish wake up and then put him back down while you sleep? If he has time, he can head to his lavish (sorry, but it really is obnoxious that he expects this right now) workout routine afterwards? There has to be some way he can help on either end of the long, long night.

I truly promise this won't last forever but you've both got to get direct with one another and practical. You both need some sleep--enough so that you can drive a car safely, have some emotional regulation and safely manage a baby--that's the goal! [/quote]

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