I think my baby broke my husband!

BethRN1987

Daddy had Sloan for the first time longer then 3 hours by himself. I was gone 13 hours at work and my husband is a mess! Feels like crap- exhausted.

Anyone else worried how their SO is coping mentally with all the change? I worry about my husband

theluckiest9

I worry too! Luckily he takes it pretty well when she's fussy. He just doesn't have as much practice as I do with getting her to sleep during the day and then she ends up overtired and fussy. It's getting a little better the more he does it so hopefully he'll be ready when I go back to work FT in a few weeks (he's going to be a SAHD).

amdecker1016

My H said today "i could be a stay at home dad if you want to go back to work"

I said"yeah right, this is coming from the man who debated coming home from Wal-Mart just for me to change a poop diaper."

If he brought her up to my work just to change a poop diaper i'd be pissed. The sad part is i can see him doing that!

bumpuser1282882

CANADIANGIRL2987 said:

Oh yes...lots of anxiety over here! And the worst part is that I somehow allow myself to "feel guilty" if he's overwhelmed or feeling tired. So much so that on weekends I seldom wake him to do a night time feeding. He is under a lot of pressure and stress at work so I over compensate by not asking for help when I should, etc. I totally stress about how he's feeling and enjoying his new little family.

I'm the same way. DH just took a new position at work which includes s lot more responsibility so I am constantly stressing about how he is doing adjusting to that and DS. I usually take him if he is crying, etc at home so DH doesn't have to deal with it.

coreyeliz

My husband also has a stressful job and I worry about how he's doing. When he gets stressed out, I feel like I need to manage everything so we're all ok. I don't know if that's actually the case since I haven't given things a chance to play out otherwise, but I sure feel the pressure.

fish8412

I love my husband and he is a great daddy but I can't see him watching LO by himself all day. A few times he has handed LO to me because she was fussy and all she needed was a diaper change. Hello!!! Why didn't you check for that? That's an easy fix.

Kewii

fish8412 said:

I love my husband and he is a great daddy but I can't see him watching LO by himself all day. A few times he has handed LO to me because she was fussy and all she needed was a diaper change. Hello!!! Why didn't you check for that? That's an easy fix.

That's funny because that's my husband's go to. If she's fussy or crying, he takes her to the diaper change table...even if he just changed it.

Once when she was screaming I found him changing her out of a clean diaper because "maybe she didn't like that one."

Khope87

Kewii said:

fish8412 said:

I love my husband and he is a great daddy but I can't see him watching LO by himself all day. A few times he has handed LO to me because she was fussy and all she needed was a diaper change. Hello!!! Why didn't you check for that? That's an easy fix.

That's funny because that's my husband's go to. If she's fussy or crying, he takes her to the diaper change table...even if he just changed it.

Once when she was screaming I found him changing her out of a clean diaper because "maybe she didn't like that one."




Ha!! That's fantastic!! I'm lucky out LO has so far liked all her nappies I'm so telling DH that one when he gets in

Pankers

DH is pretty good with LO although he's not been left alone with her yet, unless you count my showers. He's good at calming her down but my only concern is he can't tell when she's hungry. He'll just walk her round till she falls asleep if she's crying, and he refuses to ask for help. So I ask if she's hungry, he says I don't know, I ask him about the feeding cues and he just says she's crying.....I walk over, check her, she's crying because she's hungry. He's going to be a SAHD.....I hope he gets it soon.

jennybean80

I left DH with all 3 kids for 4.5 hours last night. He took them all to his dad's so he had back-up! But everyone survived.