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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Lol. Thankfully, my husband has been accepting of the co-sleeping situation, although he occasionally has his moments. I hear people saying, “I could never sleep with my baby, it would be too hard,” but really, I think their jobs are much harder! I couldn’t imagine getting up all the time to get my baby during the night… what a hassle!
This is so funny and true! I cosleep with my 7 month old and when my husband started bugging me about putting the baby in the crib I said “Okay, but you have to get him whenever he cries and bring him to me”. That ended the crib talk very quickly.
HAHA!
I get tickled whenever women expect their husbands to feed, change, and bathe the baby with all smiles. Men are just not born with that mothering instinct. Women are MUCH better at taking care of babies, sorry, it’s just true. I mean, the man didn’t even HEAR the baby crying! That should tell you something right there!