6 things all parents fight about during their baby’s first year of life
The expectation is that you’ll both be immersed in a delightful and cosy baby bubble, snuggling your tot and beaming at each other across the breakfast table. The reality is you’ve got sneaky newborn spew down your back, seven rice bubbles in your hair and a very unsympathetic and now strangely monstrous partner who is frankly lazy AND mean AND must be stopped.
Okay, we’re exaggerating, but we wanted to talk about some very common relationship snags and solutions – and to let you know that you’re in good company with these six upsetting pressure points.
2. Your baby's sleep
Not only is your sleep a bone of contention, your baby’s sleep will be too. You’ll go back and forth with your partner hotly debating who overstimulated or mis-swaddled or breathed too loudly near your wakeful tot.
Your mutual exhaustion can take this blame game to a whole other DEFCON level with many slammed doors and pillow forcefields springing up in bed between you.
Babies do sleep in fits and starts during that first year. Avoid pointing the finger at one another and try to spot – and repeat – the circumstances that create sleep success, instead.
