Working mommies

april16

How do you and your DH handle who wakes up in the middle of the night for feedings?

We are doing every other night and I am finally able to catch up on  my sleep compared to when I was on maternity leave when I was getting up every night during the work week.

AggieDee

It's all me when the new baby is born.  DH works nights so there is no choice in our household.  The nights that he is off, he wll wake up with the baby.

april16

AggieDee:

It's all me when the new baby is born.  DH works nights so there is no choice in our household.  The nights that he is off, he wll wake up with the baby.

AggieDee...that is going to be tough.

 I am so grateful that my DH is able to help out and did so even while I was on leave.

PAGAS

We were really lucky that F was STTN when I went back to work.  In the early days, DH would take the real early morning feeding (like 5am) so that I could get a 6 hour stretch of sleep.  I would pump first thing when I woke up to keep my freezer stash up.

readyforbaby

We don't have any sort of method.  Even when I was home on leave he would get up from time to time.  At that point I was nursing him in the middle of the night so it often fell to me but if I had been up with him for a while DH would step in.  DS mainly sleeps through the night now but if he wakes up it is kind of who ever gets out of bed 1st.  The monitor is on my side so I might do it a little more often.  If he wakes up multiple times we kind of take turns. 

CareBear01

readyforbaby:

We don't have any sort of method.  Even when I was home on leave he would get up from time to time.  At that point I was nursing him in the middle of the night so it often fell to me but if I had been up with him for a while DH would step in.  DS mainly sleeps through the night now but if he wakes up it is kind of who ever gets out of bed 1st.  The monitor is on my side so I might do it a little more often.  If he wakes up multiple times we kind of take turns. 

This exactly.

Erika&Brian

I usually wouldd, guess it was just instinctual, sometimes DH would if I was super tired.

savannah11

Up until the last few weeks I was nursing in the night so I did all the wake ups.  Now DH does them all.  It is very nice to finally be able to spend the whole night in my bed.

Katieraye09

I get up with DS in the middle of the night.  I'm still nursing so logistically it just works best for now (even though I'm a zombie somedays).  You will figure out what works best. 

kjr

With Alex DH got up a lot, especially the first half of the night, so that I could get decent sleep. (DH is more of a night person than I am)
With Foster I was breastfeeding, so I got up.  Luckily, Foster was a much better sleeper and so much easier to get back to sleep after a feeding. 

lilycat

With new babies, we've always tag-teamed. He fetches and diapers; I feed.

It is a system born from my last c-section being so hard to recover from. We just continue because it is familiar and heads off resentment.

When I go back to work and the baby's schedule balances out a bit, I tend to do more at night by myself. It doesn't take as many feedings to make it through the night at that point, so it isn't as tiring.