Saturday, 2 February 2019

My fiance disagrees with every decision I make as a parent.


Does anyone else deal with this? Am I in the wrong?My fiance (26m) and I (23f) are at odds right now because he has spent the last year criticising every decision I make regarding our daughter. I am a stay at home mom and I spend all of my time with my daughter as my fiance works. He is a hard worker, working 12+ hour shifts sometimes and I don't deny that. However, he isn't around to take care of her so he doesn't know anything about why I make the choices I make.He disagrees with the fact that I breastfeed her, he has wanted me to wean her since 8 months saying that she's too old to be nursing. She's 20 months old, not even 2. He doesn't like the fact that she still sleeps on me to nap. She's been a super light sleeper since birth and if I try to lay her down she wakes right up and is wide awake and won't go back to sleep. My mother has even commented on how light of a sleeper she is. He doesn't like her sleeping arrangements either because she cosleeps. He also constantly says things like "You hold her too much" or "You coddle her, you're going to spoil her". He and his family believe in the cry it out method but I am firmly against that and believe that physical touch is the healthiest thing for a baby/toddler to have besides consistency. Everything is an issue: - how much I feed her, it went from too little to too much but she's beeb spot on every time I take her to the pediatrician. -If she gets a diaper rash from spiking fevers, I'm obviously not changing her enough. - He'll make comments like "what are you going to just have an 8 year old hanging off you tit because that seems like what you want."The biggest problem that we're having right now is with her naps. Mine and my daughter's bedroom is super bright, we have a huge sliding glass door that lets a ton of light shine in and when it's not night time she treats it like a play room and won't sleep. I'll try for over an hour to put her down but she won't go. Plus I have a genetic back issue that is really painful when I slouch which happens when I breastfeed her so I have been putting her to sleep in the living room. We have dark curtains out there and a comfortable couch for me to be able to lean on a little. His problem is that he feels like it's unfair for him to have to be in my room while the baby sleeps. He feels like he shouldn't have to be quiet as he goes around the house or stay in the room just because she's asleep in the living room. He has a tv, video games, a bed, and a door to exit the house all back there. Am I asking too much by asking him to hang back there while she naps? Also have you dealt with the nitpicking situation before and do you have any tips on dealing with it? I'm at my wits end with it, I'm really starting to feel like nothing I ever do is good enough for him and his family since all they do is say that I'm doing everything wrong. via /r/Parenting http://bit.ly/2RzRkiC

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