Hubby’s involvement in baby duties

Dear mummies how involved are your husbands on day to day baby duties? My hubby reaches home at 7pm, we have dinner and he only spends a v short time with baby before I prepare her for bed time at 9pm. Full latch until she falls asleep. I have tried asking him to bottle feed but after that he can’t get baby to sleep successfully and I still need to wrap up. Also saying I need to understand as he is working and I am not. I am like yes you are working but work life was so much easier than SAHM with no income and 24/7 job with lesser sleep than him. He is outside watching TV while I latch baby to sleep and expect baby to sleep with no fussiness and when he’s tired just come into bedroom to sleep. I feel like I am all alone in parental duties sometimes.

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Form the moment his back, get shower and dinner for himself I think there is still ample time for your hub to spent time with baby.. Maybe you can ask him to wipe down baby every time he comes back before shower or dinner. Just to have a bit of body contacts with baby and little time spent. And so that u can have some breather? If not than ask him to read 2 or 3 bed time story (should be very fast) before u latch.

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