📝 AITA for washing my hands after changing a diaper, which woke my husband up

By lovelylioness1 • Score: 1 • April 8, 2025 6:02 PM


I have a 5mo who occasionally wakes up in the middle of the night. Usually I can change his diaper, and put him down to wash my hands in our kitchen, and feed him in the downstairs living room without waking my husband up. Well this morning my husband decided to sleep on the couch downstairs instead of in our bed upstairs so he could watch TV to help him fall asleep. He sometimes suffers from insomnia, and this helps him with his sleep issues. This morning my baby woke up around 5:30am. I changed his diaper and had two options: I could either use our upstairs bathroom to wash my hands and risk waking up my 3 year old or wash my hands in the kitchen like I usually do. I decided to risk waking my husband instead of the 3 year old ( who would have demanded to watch TV at 5:30 in the morning). The baby ended up crying and woke my husband. My husband said I didn't care about his sleep and was neurotic about hand washing. I told him I would put some hand sanitizer next to the changing table so this issue doesn't happen again. I also take care of all night waking for the baby because I breastfeed, and take care of the toddler if she wakes up before my husband's alarm goes off. I also never wake him up on the weekends because I let him sleep in while I take care of the baby. I understand that having insomnia sucks and I'm just wired to need less sleep. Anyways, AITA for wanting to wash my hands knowing it would probably wake my husband up?

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