Follow up question for breastfeeding moms of newborns: what are your husbands doing at night?

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For those who are exclusive breastfeeding newborn and haven’t introduced a bottle feed by dad because it’s too early or maybe not planning to at all... what do your partners do at night?
I have been letting my husband sleep except for one wake up where I ask for help with changing and getting baby back down.  He is working and we have 2 year old also.  He is taking care of cleaning up dishes etc too.  
Thanks!

Accepted Answer

Sleeping with his useless nipples

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My hubby slept unless she didn’t fall right back to sleep and then he’d take her. I didn’t see any reason for him to be losing sleep if he wasn’t helping 😂

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We share tasks. When our baby wakes up he takes her and changes her dipper. After that he brings her to me for breastfeeding and he goes back to sleep. 
When the baby cries at night, he is the one that takes her for singing and swings until she calms down. 
I just love my husband, he is great!!

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I’m not breastfeeding but he still doesn’t get up lol!

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My SO sleeps lol

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He sleeps. He's never once gotten up with the baby. Our baby doesn't really wake up at night. Only once he is getting hungry or the paci falls out he starts to get restless. Idk how we got this angel baby. My husband does usually take hi. At night because he has a hard time going to bed in the beginning.

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Sleeping. I've woken him up maybe once with our youngest. We have 3 daughters and nurse till self wean. He wakes at 4am and helps me w everything else. We bed share so I side nurse. I pop baby on and we pass out together. Our baby just turned 1 on Tues tho

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Sleeping. But I wake him to burp the baby and change his diaper. If I’m up then he should be too 😆😂

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He slept but was on call for baby emergencies. For instances, spit ups, escaping poop messes etc. sometimes on bad nights he would stay up with me all night and we would watch tv or something. Now that we have a four year old who is a bad sleeper he wakes up and puts e back to bed or let’s him curl up with us.

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I wake him to change diapers while I use the restroom and get myself arranged on the bed for nursing. 
If baby needs another diaper change post nursing, I do it myself. In the first two weeks or so I would ask hubby to do it as recovery was tough on me and getting up and down took me longer/was more painful. 
I also pass baby off to him anywhere from 6-7am after feeding, so he can hold him and I can get a solid 1-2 hour block of sleep not having to worry about baby fussing to be burped or gassy or anything.

Follow up question for breastfeeding moms of newborns: what are your husbands doing at night?

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