Does your S/O help with the baby at night?

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I'm a stay at home mom all day and my boyfriend work all day. So when he gets home I have cooked cleaned and taking care of the baby all day. And at night I'm all alone taking care of the baby. Does your partner help you at night?

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He doesn't "help", he parents because this is a group effort 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Nope! She’s breastfed. I’ll feed her and then he’ll spend time with her if I want a bath or something but since she’s EBF There’s really nothing for him to do in the middle of the night.

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I do night feeds, he does morning feeds
We take turns during the day when we both have off

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No. I bitch at him for it a lot too. Cause he will stay up super late playing video games and watching tv while we sleep and I feed him. Then sleep all gosh dang morning then go to work just to do it again. It makes me so mad. I keep telling his lazy ass but nothing changes. Been unhappy with him since lo came.

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Always! He is just doing his dad duties not “helping”. It’s a 50-50 effort all day every day.

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On the nights hes off he does but there isnt much he can do cause I breastfeed her.

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He helps, but not with the mental load. I have to tell him to hold baby/change diaper/time for bed which is super annoying because I know he can do it on his own; I get one night off a week to play softball and hang out with the girls for beers and hubby makes out fine on his own then.

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No very often. I’m on maternity leave and he’s working. He helps when he gets home from work, but when we go to bed it’s usually on me. Every once in a while he helps.

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He sometimes does on the weekends. I asked him to feed our son Tuesday morning since he has to get up anyways and since it was an hour earlier than he would have gotten up anyways he was extremely mad because I was super tired but he had to get up with him. It’s like that all the time it’s getting extremely annoying. I understand that since he works he should sleep but when he gets home he doesn’t even really do anything. I have to beg him to hold him or watch him so I can go to the bathroom by myself. He never wants to feed him either 🙄🙄

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When im home, no.  She's breastfed so I get up with her.  But I work nights every other week so he gets 7 full nights of night time feeds by himself, we both feel it's pretty fair. I also think that him having to do some night time feeds has been great for their bonding because baby is a total mama's girl,  but she's been liking dad much more now that I'm back at work and he has more baby duties.

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