31/08/2022
💘 A recent study revealed you CAN still wake up at night to comfort your baby EVEN if you did not birth them yourself! Who knew?! It is totally reasonable to expect your partner to alternate trips to check on your baby, even if it’s one night a week or one time per night. They may have to get up early for work the next day, but so do you, and I’d bet their job isn’t more important than keeping a tiny human alive 🤷🏻♀️
💘 Pick something for them to be in charge of. If you ask me, Dear God, let them wash the pump and bottle parts! To make it easy for them, parts can be stored in the fridge for 24 hours (that’s one wash a day!), but choose something YOU would love taken off your plate.
💘 They can help you make decisions or support you in the ones YOU make. Your partner will not be as invested as you are in every single decision made regarding your kids and that’s okay! If he doesn’t feel as strongly as you do, he can still commit to having your back and implementing the strategies you’ve researched, thought about and decided upon when it comes to sleeping, eating, rules, behavior and whatever else you feel is right for your baby 🫶
💘 They can help you feed the baby. If your baby is bottle fed, great! That makes it super easy. If your baby is exclusively breastfed, they can still get up with you and change the baby’s diaper or help you get situated for what may be a long stent awake (it’s just JUST food babies need at night 😉)
💘 They can feed you! The only way to keep your baby healthy is to keep yourself healthy, so have a pep talk with your partner-in-parenting and ask that they just do this for you. Bonus points if they do it without being reminded, and especially if they choose foods you can eat with one hand 😉 via .app