[*Shandy*]

...than Dads with bubs that are bottle fed?

WDYT?

I guess you can only truly answer this if you have done both. Sometimes I tend to think that DH wouldn't know what hit him if he had to make up a bottle in the middle of the night (DD is breastfed). You tend to think of these strange things at 5am with one boob out and one eye shut...

Please, I don't want a debate on which is best I am just curious as to what others think?

Shell


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DH - 29
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[Expat]

I dunno, depends how the baby likes chest hair in their mouth, I suppose.

[~kylie~]

During the newborn period, my DH usually rocks the baby back to sleep after I've breastfed. (So far we've had 2 unsettled newborns, so he's done lots of rocking!) With our first born, I also used to pump some nights and he'd bottle feed - we both soon realised that was too time consuming though, and I could have had baby fed and back to sleep before he'd even heated the bottle!

As they get older and they feed back to sleep easily, he gets up to them at night, does bath, nappies, does lots really. He doesn't get off lightly



Kylie,
Mama to J&H

[Guest_feenor_*]

Not really sure, although when my son was a newborn and it was all a novelty...lol, DP use to stay awake with me when i feed ds then he would change his nappy, burp and put him back in is cot.
He was pretty involved..but he soon grew out of that.

But, i think it was just really conviant for both of us, not to have to get up and make bottles and heat bottles and stuff. But probably when you've been doing it from day you'd be use to it....like just part of your routine.

[**Clair**]

when ds was born dh was more than happy to share the late night/early morning bottle feeds. but as he got older that wore off along with the volentary nappy changing/bathing/dressing etc. by the time dd came he wouldn't feed her let alone change her bum or anything that involved a bit of effort unless i kicked up a major fuss. thankfully i have hardly had to get up to her during the night since she was 6 weeks old.

as for havning it easyer, well since he does absolutly jack sh*t as it is, i don't see how much easyer he could get it.. :confuse:

sorry for the mini vent lol

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[cameo]

Yes Yes Yes!! When it came to my DH for sure. However, you can involve (voluntary or not) as much as you like by pumping and bottle feeding
bringing baby to you
changing nappy
helping settle

DS never ever got up with me in the middle of the night, even when DS was waking up to 15 times a night, even when DS would be hysterical and I would be in tears not knowing what to do. He also wouldn't stay up to 10.30 with me to do the rollover feed so I would be up by myself...
Whoops, turned into a mini vent too!!

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[cesca]

Yes, I reckon b/f Dads have it easier in general. But then, so too do b/f Mums! I mean, I would've HATED to have had to get up in the middle of the night to heat up bottles!

I did the whole night feed thing myself, but it was really not that bad. I quite enjoyed that 10 minutes or so to myself at 2am! I'd take a book or magazine (I became quite the reader while b/f).

But DH has very rarely gotten up to the kids, ever. He just doesn't hear them wake up.

[Dani]

Yes they have it easier but mine sure had to put up with a shedload of whingeing so maybe he would have preferred to just participate in making 2am bottles. As I had to pump for so long with Mac DH was still a doll as he truly saw it as 'his' job to ensure the pumps were all sterilised and that he delivered them to me when I was due to pump (as I would pump at the computer whilst talking to you dodgy lot. LOL) so he did try to ensure that I did as little work as was humanely possible, bless him.

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[Victory]

Probably depends more on the husband than the mode of feeding.
My girls both fully breastfed. My DH has shared in many sleepless nights.
My fantastic man jumps out of bed as quick as anything if I need him. Last night he heard Charlotte's huge struggle to breathe and feed at the same time from her shocking cold she has ATM in the early hours, and he got up, set up the vaporiser, wedged a blanket under her cot mattress and got some Euky rub for her.
Then was up again to DD1 (She is well trained, she ALWAYS calls for Daddy in the middle of the night)
He does more than his share of patting, rocking, singing, settling and nappies.
He took Charlotte into the shower with him this morning so that I could grab an extra bit of sleep.



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[~Cleopatra~]

No and certainly not once DS wouldn't have a bottle lol! I would have continued doing the ebm thing otherwise. I think it was pretty hard on him if I went out for a bit and he could do nothing to comfort him cause I had the boobs.

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