Exhausted and snappy with my partner - need to fix this
My son just turned 5 weeks old and I'm losing it. I thought I'd be more patient as a dad but I'm apparently the opposite. Wife says something reasonable like "can you watch him for an hour so I can shower" and I hear it like she's asking me to climb Mount Everest. Then I snap at her about it. Then I feel like garbage because she's the one actually recovering from birth and dealing with hormones.
I've had maybe 4 decent nights of sleep in 5 weeks. I know that's the issue but understanding it and fixing it are different things. She's started just asking my mom to come over instead of asking me now, which somehow makes it worse. How do you guys handle the sleep deprivation rage without being a jerk to the person you love?
This was me at week 6. Turns out I was expecting to be patient while operating on 2-3 hours of fragmented sleep. I wasn't an impatient person - I was a person dying. We got a night nurse for 2 nights a week and it completely changed my mood.