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Moving from bedroom bassinet to crib in nursery - husband wants to, I’m afraid

Our baby is 2 months old. She is currently in a bassinet in our bedroom. Husband wants to move her to the crib in her nursery now. I don’t feel ready. Is it just my anxiety? She would obviously be further away but we would of course have the monitor hooked up. I typically am waking to bottle feed her, so I also feel like having her close is more convenient. His thought is she does do a considerable amount of noise making and whining while not even awake throughout the night, so she is waking us up but doesn’t need anything. Do I stand my ground until I feel ready or try moving her now? How did you decide when to move your baby to the crib?

Do men just not understand what 50/50 means?

Things I’ve done for LO’s upcoming birthday: Planned/designed a homemade cake I’m going to make for him Ordered cake decoration materials needed Ordered balloons Shopped for ingredients for cake, and planned cookout menu Spent my breaks at work today (I work from home) prepping ingredients for tomorrow Got paper and plastic ware Ordered birthday gift Planned time of event Will make sure LO has cute outfit clean the day of Will end up packing everything day of (going to my parents) Cook all side dishes Bake cake morning of Things husband is going to do: Grill meat And yet, when asked, he’d say we split things 50/50...

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My husband won’t shower

I love my husband and he’s generally a pretty clean person but we had our son in January 2020 so we got lax about showering and then he started WFH immediately after paternity leave. And he. won’t. shower. He showers every 3 days and I’ve already made jokes about it last summer and now he’s back at it. And it’s hot so he gets stinky. I went straight back from maternity leave to work on a COVID floor (fml right) and he got this sweet gig of WFH and he has the audacity to complain about having to drive back to work soon. Bro, I’ve been driving this whole time which has worked great becsuse I had a safe space to cry for a minute or two before my shifts or after them! I don’t get it. I just had to leave our bed because he smelt so bad that I couldn’t even stand being next to him. He also only brushes his teeth once a day but I’m not even sure if he’s doing that. I just had to vent.

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I left him

I left him today. Idk what to do from here but I packed up myself and my son. We left. I know it’s the right thing. The other night my husband choked my dog. It clicked and l left today. I hope to go back for my stuff. But I can rebuild if not.

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My daughter is 6 months old and already falls asleep without me.

She sleeps wherever I’m at, the living room in her pack n play or in the bedroom in the crib but she doesn’t need to fall asleep in bed with me and she doesn’t need to sleep on my chest anymore. This has been going on for a couple months now. I’ve read posts like “soak all this in because one day will be the last day they sleep on your chest” and I feel like that’s already happened. Ugh I’m sad, she’s only 6 months but she’s already so big and independent.

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Next time I'll do better

Anybody else get tired of hearing that and never seeing it happen? Next time I'll do better, know to do that, make sure to, remember to...blah blah blah. "Next time I'll know to clean the mess properly and not leave cat pee all over the tub" is the latest one. We've had a cat that pees on stuff before but apparently it's been long enough that he thinks cat pee easily comes out now. And acts put out when I say it still smells like cat piss in the bathroom. I mean fuck me for wanting a house that doesn't smell. I swear, my marriage is dying a slow death of him promising to do better. I don't care about his damn empty promises anymore, I want to stop fixing his messes. I want someone who equally cares about our home and how it smells/looks. And then he gets mad at me because I tell him I'm not his damn mother, it isn't my job to notice smells or remind him how to do something we've done tons of times before. I'm just so angry.