Comments on: What everyone tells an expectant father

By: Susanna Rose

Susanna Rose — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:26:11 +0000

Funny that people would tell your husband that as it is, quite frankly, YOU who will be having the sleepless nights, at least if breast feeding works out for you!!!:) Or maybe I shouldn’t have said that….!;)

By: courtney

courtney — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:35:36 +0000

tell your hubby its nothing like what he hears. for various reasons i had to go back to work and my husband has been a stay at home dad for the past 3 months with a now- 6 month old…he told me he wouldnt have it any other way. Josh will be fine

By: Joanna

Joanna — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:11:43 +0000

Ok, so Josh can sleep through a baby crying (I can NOT) thus I am usually the one to get up. But I must say with 2 toddlers in the home we both get plenty of sleep. There is your encouragement, AJ! You will sleep again!

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:27:49 +0000

You know, I sometimes think that people say that kind of thing with glee a wee bit…I know that when people say that they are taking organic chemistry, I look at them with a gleam in my eye, (the gleam of I finished a hard thing and did OK) and say “you’ll have fun” (sarcastically), and maybe that is kind of the same thing?? Anyway, I agree with your statement – maybe you lose sleep, but it is worth it Praying for you!!

By: LeAnna

LeAnna — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:35:21 +0000

My husband probably felt the same way! Unfortunately (or fortunately, for them) husbands typically get more sleep than Momma’s do. At least that was my case. I always felt bad for having him take care of the baby in the middle of night, because I knew he had to get up and work. Don’t get me wrong, it happened quite a lot for the first few months, but after things smoothed out it mostly rests on the Mothers sleepless shoulders. Men have this uncanny ability to replace lost nighttime sleep with that of naptime sleep.