u/CustardSea8432

My 7 month old baby doesn’t want to be put to bed by me anymore. (I’m dad)

I could put him to bed all the time but since a few weeks he doesn’t want it anymore and gets really upset. It ends with me rocking and sushing for hours until he finally sleeps…

With his mom he falls asleep in 5 minutes. Im starting to get really frustrated and end up in arguments with my wife, asking her to please stay home at night or at least put him to bed before she leaves.

She says she want’s to be able to go to out at night, playing tennis or having dinner at friends, wich I get but at this point I just think we don’t really have a choice.

Anybody who’s dealing with this and have any tips for me?

Hello everyone, I was wondering if there are parents of wich one of u guys work nightshifts, and how are you experiencing in combination with having a baby.

I work 12 hour night shifts and get home at 5:30 am, wich is the time our 7m old wakes up. I always make his bottle the moment I get home and also feeding him so my partner gets a 30-40 min extra to wake up, wich I really don’t mind and is something I look forward to when driving home. Im obviously exhausted after my shift, but lately the stretches of staying up and feeding/playing w my kid when getting home are becoming longer, because my partner thinks I’m handling it well. I told her I don’t mind making and feeding his bottle but after that I really need to sleep cause my brain is just shutting down after being up for 20 some hours of wich I’ve worked 12.

Moral of the story is she’s now reacting annoyed when asking her to take over our son so I can sleep and I feel really undervalued, cause it takes a lot to stay up when your body and brain is screaming for sleep. I just feel she doesn’t understand the impact of those kind of shifts.