I am so grateful that my husband helps with changing diapers at night but it’s hard to watch him sleep peacefully while I’m up breastfeeding the baby. I know he can’t do much more and I chose this but is anyone else going through this?
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My husband sleeps in a separate room because he snores and coughs(he’s a smoker)too often, waking up the baby too often when she already only sleeps 1-2 hours at a time all her life, and she is 16 months old now. If my husband were to help out at night, my baby would fully wake up and we would lose even more sleep. She gets so excited to see him now lol. So I nurse often at night and change her diaper. I’m so used to doing everything myself at this point. I take care of the baby, and he does all the cooking, grocery shopping, some of the cleaning, and he works. It’s just what works for us though. When he was sleeping with us, I would get so mad. This was our solution to him sleeping so peacefully. He got kicked out of the bedroom and now has his own room! Out of sight out of mind! 
It used to aggravate me when we had our 2nd baby because the baby would never sleep and I was so tired but my husband couldn’t do anything to help because I was breastfeeding. I asked him if I could sleep on his side of the bed because apparently you can’t hear the baby from that side with our first he would get up with me but I told him to go back to bed because we both didn’t need to be tired and he would help in the morning to let me get some sleep
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I had so much resentment at first even tho I was in the same boat , it’s not him it’s me I choose to do this and whenever he would try to make a bottle and baby wouldn’t take it I’d just say ah forget it an breastfeed, he does so much but my brain was so tired at night! I think it’s normal to just feel your feelings and it’s okay to feel this way! We are tired but it doesn’t last forever and it does get better
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Ugh yes, I felt this so much. Even when they’re helping, breastfeeding can still feel really lonely in the middle of the night. You can be grateful and exhausted at the same time. 
What helped us was finding ways my husband could support around the feeding—diaper change, burping, refilling my water, taking baby in the morning so I could sleep a little longer. It doesn’t have to be equal in the exact same moment to still feel like teamwork.