https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:01:01 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-577345 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:18:59 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 577345@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It wasn't until this past week, week and a half that DH has been helping out with DS (a year old). It has been -huge- not having to put him to bed and doing the middle of the night feeds. Very helpful, especially since I'm around 38 weeks along! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-577255 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:48:38 +0000 keiki_mama 577255@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, only because I leave for work before DH and DS get up in the morning. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-577232 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:37:51 +0000 apis 577232@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, I did and do. When LO wakes up in the morning, I get him, change his diaper, and bring him to our bedroom for feeding. We're swaddle-weaning right now, so I was up about five times last night alone! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-577174 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:13:51 +0000 StbHisMrs 577174@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>nope, not unless I throw a fit after the tenth time, then he gets mad at me :/ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-577144 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:59:09 +0000 MaisyMay 577144@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He gives her a night bottle while I get up a pump. It's a decent arrangement, but I hate asking him to get up while he isn't feeling well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-577119 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:53:24 +0000 mrskc 577119@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. Every time. I feel a teensy bit bad about it. He does more than me during the night. He'll get up and bring him to me in bed. I'll nurse him and usually fall back to sleep. Then I'll wake up to DH getting DS and putting him back in the pack n play. DH hears the baby more than me. Sometimes he's gotten up and put him back to sleep with out me hardly realizing. I don't do well waking up in the middle of the night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-577014 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:23:16 +0000 littleveesmommy 577014@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When DD used to get up in the middle of the night, I would get up because I always nursed her then put her back down. If she doesn't fall right back to sleep (which happened a lot from 1-4 months) then DH would take over to soothe her. Now I get up with DD when she wakes for her morning nursing session then hand her off to DH to change her, feed her breakfast and hand off to grandma before he gets ready for work. Depending on when DD gets up, I usually can go back to sleep for. Bit before I get ready for work. It's nice and DD gets some exclusive daddy daughter time. =) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-577003 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:18:31 +0000 PurpleUnicorn 577003@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Running Elley: we are the opposite, i think one reason DH gets up all the time is also because he hears him make every sound, while i wouldn't hear it for a while! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-577000 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:17:40 +0000 PurpleUnicorn 577000@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>pretty much since the beginning DH does all the diaper changes during the night. only the first week that he went back to work, i did everything for a few days and was so tired that he just started getting up everytime L woke up to do diaper change so i could sleep a bit more, then i feed. and if i have trouble putting him back to bed, then DH would help, but that didn't happen often during night wakings.</p> <p>now that L STTN, DH gets up for the first diaper change in the morning while i get ready to feed. on weekends he tries to let me sleep in more by getting a bottle ready (EBM), but if i wake up before L eats, then i just get up to feed. ..... so basically DH is amazing with helping out at all times i think. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-576995 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:15:14 +0000 lovehoneybee 576995@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Running Elley: Oh man, when he was sleeping in our room he could be screaming bloody murder and DH wouldn't stir. Once or twice he would say "shhh" in his sleep. But now that he's in the other room the crying wakes him up (through the video monitor feed on my side of the bed) before it wakes me up. So funny. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-576986 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:12:24 +0000 Running Elley 576986@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. On the weekends though he'll take him once he wakes up to play so that I can get some extra sleep. </p> <p>The only reason that he doesn't get up with LO at night is he doesn't hear him cry. He doesn't hear him unless he's actually in our room. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-576957 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:03:27 +0000 Mrs. Pen 576957@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, we take turns. For both nights and in the morning. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-576951 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:01:56 +0000 cascademom 576951@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DH does the first half of the night for wakeups, so I can sleep a bit. By about 2am or so, I'll start the second half of the wakeups. Since I end up with the mornings usually, I like Sundays the best. LO and I watch CBS Sunday Morning together while LO plays on his play gym until he gets tired. I can't wait for STTN! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-576933 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:58:49 +0000 littlek 576933@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LOL... nope </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-576645 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:55:20 +0000 Sammyfab 576645@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup! Every weekday morning and one day on the weekend DH gets LO out of bed in the morning. It's awesome!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-576641 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:54:07 +0000 heffalump 576641@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO STTN now... but when she didn't he would get up with her more than I did. I get bad migraines so sleep is important for me and my head. He was awesome with that :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-576635 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:52:02 +0000 GrapeCrush 576635@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my husband does the majority of the wake-ups, bless his heart lol. BUT, i'm pregnant and exhausted, and he is a saint and knows i need the rest :o) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-575735 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:54:32 +0000 immabeetoo 575735@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes on weekends or when I'm particularly worn out. It's amazing mostly bc I can pass back out without being anxious baby is going to pop up awake again! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-575729 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:53:31 +0000 MsLipGloss 575729@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No - but we co-sleep and co-bed, and I am still BF at night. When I am up with LO in bed, DH will rub my back though. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-575709 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:49:07 +0000 buffalove 575709@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yes, just as recently as last night! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-575673 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:41:32 +0000 sera_87 575673@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah, he does it all the time when he's home - lo wakes up at 7/8 and dh takes him until his first nap at 9/10. I do do all the night wakings though. He'll bring him back in to nurse &amp; then we sleep together </p> <p>This weekend and last weekend I took LO so he got a break. He was getting resentful (and tired). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-575618 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:26:56 +0000 rattles 575618@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>On the weekends he'll bring her to me, but I have to do the work to put her back down to sleep afterward. I'm on solo duty during the week since I'm home with her during the day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-575598 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:20:56 +0000 runsyellowlites 575598@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That's great!</p> <p>DH will get up with P in the morning on some of his days off, and some morning while he's getting ready he'll sit on the bed with her and change her for me so I can get a few extra minutes of resting.</p> <p>He doesn't do ANY night wakings though.... I think I can count only 5 times that he's rocked her back to sleep while we're still up even.</p> <p>Oh well... he's a good daddy in every other area! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-575570 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:15:08 +0000 mrsmenow 575570@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope....never:/ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-575561 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:12:13 +0000 2PeasinaPod 575561@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes...he was wonderful. I was pumping and bottle feeding by 3 weeks though, so he had a much more active role in feeding LO early. We would take turns to give each other a bit of a break. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-575543 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:08:20 +0000 mrsjyw 575543@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When he was off last week and on weekends during my mat leave, he would always get up for early am and during the night.</p> <p>DS has been STTN for the last week, so we've both been blessed and get up together for work/weekends as a family :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-575542 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:08:06 +0000 mediagirl 575542@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup. He gets her when she wakes up in the night. He will go get her and bring her to me in bed. I'll feed her, laying down and then carry her back to her crib. It works out really well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-dh-get-up-with-your-lo#post-575533 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:06:39 +0000 lovehoneybee 575533@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When DS was co-sleeping DH would never get up with him, because I was right there...even when he was in the PnP in our room he was only a few feet away and it was just easier for me to grab him and bring him into bed. </p> <p>Now that we've moved him into his own room I've been pleasantly surprised that if DH has taken a more active role with wake-ups. I mean, I still do the bulk of them, but he'll get up with him in the early morning, change him, play with him/snuggle for several minutes and then bring him into me in bed, going so far as to position him so I barely have to open my eyes. Sometimes he'll even stay awake long enough to put him back in his crib (although usually I do....but by then I need to pee anyway). It's not a lot, but it's so nice to have that bit of extra sleep! </p>