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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 466498" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>To me, the man sounds like a complete a**! Not even considering that he is making her and the baby sleep in a separate room, he's a looney for making her do this and she's a looney for putting up with it! I would expect my husband to not only be concerned with my health and any medical problems associated with childbirth, I would expect him to do everything he could to help with the baby and to keep up with the household chores while I was recovering. Does he think that feeding the baby is all there is to it, and since he can't help with that, he gets off scott free? What about changing a diaper once in a while, doing the laundry, going to the grocery store, cooking a meal, doing the dishes, vacuuming, dusting ... all those things she either doesn't have time for or isn't physically up to yet? </p><p></p><p>Those first few weeks after having a baby are mentally and physically exhausting. And if you have had a C-section it's even worse, especially before the staples are taken out! That's major surgery and to try to recover from it while sleep deprived and taking care of a newborn is very difficult if not impossible without a lot of help. After my daughter was born, I couldn't even get up out of a chair while holding her by myself and I couldn't even bend over the crib far enough to lift her out by myself. You need LOTS of help! Not that my ex was all that helpful - I don't remember him ever getting up at night with either one of them even once, but he did pick up a little of the slack with the house and laundry, as little as he could get by with without inconveniencing himself. </p><p></p><p>If this guys wife puts up with this, she's an even bigger bonehead than he is</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 466498, member: 1883"] To me, the man sounds like a complete a**! Not even considering that he is making her and the baby sleep in a separate room, he's a looney for making her do this and she's a looney for putting up with it! I would expect my husband to not only be concerned with my health and any medical problems associated with childbirth, I would expect him to do everything he could to help with the baby and to keep up with the household chores while I was recovering. Does he think that feeding the baby is all there is to it, and since he can't help with that, he gets off scott free? What about changing a diaper once in a while, doing the laundry, going to the grocery store, cooking a meal, doing the dishes, vacuuming, dusting ... all those things she either doesn't have time for or isn't physically up to yet? Those first few weeks after having a baby are mentally and physically exhausting. And if you have had a C-section it's even worse, especially before the staples are taken out! That's major surgery and to try to recover from it while sleep deprived and taking care of a newborn is very difficult if not impossible without a lot of help. After my daughter was born, I couldn't even get up out of a chair while holding her by myself and I couldn't even bend over the crib far enough to lift her out by myself. You need LOTS of help! Not that my ex was all that helpful - I don't remember him ever getting up at night with either one of them even once, but he did pick up a little of the slack with the house and laundry, as little as he could get by with without inconveniencing himself. If this guys wife puts up with this, she's an even bigger bonehead than he is [/QUOTE]
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