Scenario 1:
A woman wakes up to the sound of her baby crying through the monitor. She rolls towards her husband, and gently nudges him. “Honey, wake up.”
Nothing.
She squeezes his arm a bit and again says, “Honey, wake up.”
Still nothing.
Now, beginning to get a little frustrated she says, “Okay, babe, you have to get up…right now!” Her grumpy husband wakes up and asks, “what do you want?”
“Ugh, can you not hear your son crying? It’s your turn to feed him! I’ve done it the last three nights and this is my night for a break.”
“Alright, alright, I’m going.” The man proceeds to swing his legs off the bed, slide his feet into his slippers, and walk to the kitchen. He begins searching through the cabinets for a bottle, but there isn’t one to be found. He hollers for his wife. “Babe, where are the bottles?!”
The wife marches into the kitchen, shoots her husband a disgusted look, and opens up the dishwasher. She finds all of the pieces of the bottle, and begins to assemble it. She looks up, only to find that her husband had left. She thinks to herself, “well, at least he’s making himself useful by going to comfort our son.” She grabs a scoop of formula, and fills the bottle with water, shaking it as she walks into the nursery to check on little Johnny and her husband. Only, all she finds is her baby, all red and blotchy from crying. Her sweetheart had decided that she was handling everything fine, so he went back to bed.
Scenario #2
Baby begins to wrestle in his sleep. Mommy rolls over, lifts baby gently, and places him to her breast. Baby begins to nurse and soon falls back asleep.
Which would you rather?
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