
Not sure if this is the right subreddit, I'm kind of new, but I figured I'd give it a shot. And I'm sorry if this is longwinded. It's just the stream of consciousness. My husband of 3 years and I had our twins two weeks ago, and we have been so excited. Everything is so new and while it's difficult, we've been taking it all in stride. Except for the sleeping. They wake up like clockwork, except in staggered clockwork. One will wake up, cry for a bit, be fed, go back to sleep, then almost an hour later, the other will wake up, cry for a bit, be fed, go back to sleep. Occasionally, one will wake the other up, or a noise will be made that'll startle one of them awake, but the other will be silent and the schedule will be thrown off for the rest of the night. I stay home to watch both of them during the day, and my husband has chosen to just not stop going to work. We don't really need the extra money, I think he's just stressed by double the babies.He has this whole week off for Christmas. Usually, my family has kind of a series of parties to celebrate. Everybody gets together Christmas Eve, the adults get drunk and wrap presents until past midnight, and then we get together on Christmas Day and have another big party that night. Most of the time, it lasts very late. My husband has always been very fussy about his sleeping habits- he goes to bed at 9pm every single night, wakes up once at 3am to pee, and gets up at 7am exactly. With our twins, he's been willing to adjust his schedule, but I feel that since he works, I should get up with the babies, so I do. I told him straight up that I was going to stay up with my family both nights, since I feel as though I've kind of had my life taken from me since I had our babies. I love them, but it's just hard to adjust to having my time kind of controlled by two creatures that can't even lift their own heads.Christmas Eve, I crawled into bed at about 2am, and promptly noticed there was a shrieking baby. I woke up my husband, and asked if he would get her. He said no, he was tired and wanted to sleep. Then, the other one started to cry. I told my husband he had to get them, since we had bottles prepared for them. He got upset, got out of bed, and told me I had to take one of them. I asked why, and he said there were two, so it requires two parents. I gave up, and helped. They got back to bed, and our boy woke up a few hours later. My husband lay in bed while the baby cried, then nudged me and asked, "aren't you getting that?" I was like, no. And he got upset, and said I wasn't being fair to him. Still, I said he could get the baby, or let him scream until someone calls CPS. He fed him, and right after the baby was asleep, the other one started to cry. He got even angrier, and said I was depriving him of sleep, and it was different when I wake up with them because I get to sleep during the day (which I don't do- I clean, run errands, etc.) I told him he could take a nap, and he said it wasn't the same, and left the room with the baby for at least an hour.I'm writing this from my family Christmas party, and I can hear my baby crying upstairs. They've been asleep for about 3 hours now, their dad passed out a half hour ago, and I'm getting ready to go upstairs, tell him to wake up and feed our children. How can I handle this going forward? During the day, he's very attentive, and while I was pregnant, I felt like I was staying at a 5 star hotel with how awesome he was. This is so weird, but I just want to know if anyone else has had experience with this. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2BPSFit
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