One woman asked her husband to watch their 3-month-old while she took a shower.
After hearing the baby scream for 15 minutes, she checked on him, only to find her husband had left the baby in a swing while he cooked.
She stepped in to calm the baby, and her husband was not happy about it…
Check out the details below.
Okay, this happened only an hour or so ago.
My husband, 42m, is really angry right now.
I had asked him if he could watch the baby (3months male) so I could take a shower.
He said yes and took the baby right away.
I took my time getting my soaps, towel, wash cloth, and other shower things organized in the bathroom.
During the entire 15 mins of me being in the bathroom, the baby was crying so hard that he was losing his breath.
Was he giving him a breathing exercise or watching him?
I was wondering why he was crying for so long, so I came out of the bathroom and found that my husband had brought the baby swing into the kitchen and left the baby to cry while he cooked dinner on the stove.
The babys face was red and tears down his face.
I grabbed his pacifier and tried to calm him down a bit, and my husband became irritated that I was fussing over the baby instead of getting in the shower.
I went to the sink to grab a clean bottle, intending to make a bottle and sit down to feed him so he stops crying.
Guess he thought a “cry it out” method was the solution here.
My husband reacted instantly.
He swore at me, and grabbed the bottle himself and started making it.
He said I was ruining his plan for the night, and that I was taking over.
He made the bottle and took the baby to the living room and fed him, telling me to go take my shower already.
Why didn’t he just feed the baby 15 mins ago?
I went and took my shower, came out and found the baby to be perfectly happy now, and my husband back at the stove and babbling with the baby.
His mood was perfectly fine at this point.
Uhhhh…
I decided my best option would be to go sit in my room and try to calm down before I talk to him.
He comes in and asks why I closed the door.
I say that I don’t really want to talk to him right now.
And that he is not to swear at me like that again.
He immediately becomes angry, and says that I didn’t need to be messing with the baby when he has him.
It got a little heated, with our voices raised, but nothing was said that was regrettable.
In the end, I went back to the bedroom and he finished cooking.
Later, he came into the room and angrily took his pillow and brought it to the living room.
A clear statement that he wasn’t sleeping in the bed with me tonight.
I got the baby to sleep and put him to bed, then swiped his pillow off the couch on my way back to our bedroom.
I then crafted a text message basically telling him that he needs to come in and communicate with me about this, because I don’t think that i deserved to be swore at for fussing over a screaming baby.
So, AITA for “taking over” when he didn’t feed the baby?
Okay, now they’re both avoiding each other.
But only one is in the wrong…who is it?
According to Reddit, it’s Dad.
This person says Mom’s response was super reasonable.
This person thinks Mom needs to rein in Dad’s anger, because this is probably how he’ll be his whole parenthood.
This person is more concerned for how long the baby was crying.
Well…
Maybe next time, he’ll swap the pacifier for some patience.
If you liked that post, check out this story about a guy who was forced to sleep on the couch at his wife’s family’s house, so he went to a hotel instead.
