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My husband gets up with her every morning. We tried alternating but he works better on less sleep and he enjoys the time with her sooooo I'm ridiculously lucky.

Yes. He works second shift and I work from home (grad school), so we alternate daily whenever there has been a bad night. We keep odd hours anyway.

She tends to wake about 2-3 hours earlier than we'd like. 80% she goes down again and 20% refuses. We take turns at who puts her to bed and if she doesn't stay down, it's on that parent.

Not really. I handle all night wakings always so he always gets up with lo (I usually sleep 1 extra hour, max of 2). Sometimes lo will sleep well for a few days in a row and I start to feel bad then she keeps me up all night a few days and I don't anymore lol. I've asked him if he would rather alternate (like he does nights and I do mornings) sometimes or take turns doing both night and morning for weekends but he says he's happy with the status quo (and so am I). Sometimes though if lo has a good stretch if nights I'll take a morning to be nice.

@mrsjyw: 8:30!? You are so lucky! We have both slept in if DD sleeps past 7!
If she wakes super early,
DH usually Gets up with her but I don't really fall back to sleep because I hear them playing and I feel badly he's up with her. I dknt get up with her bc DH would sleep til noon if I let him...and that's not happening on a weekend!

@loveisstrange: This. I used to get so angry when DH would sleep in until 11:30 or so that it would ruin my day. That's 6 hours after LO gets up. By the time he got up he didn't want to do anything because it was almost LOs nap time.

We capped the sleep time to 8:30 and I am much happier. I can't sleep in anyway (DH takes forever waking up to LOs cries, they are super loud, and LO throws a fit for me) but since I have 8:30 blocked in my mind as my time I usually lounge in bed until 7:15 or so. Before I was getting up with them when they woke at 5:30 which made DH mad and he would usually go back to bed, making me mad too.

Pretty much both weekend days one of us gets our son and we bring him into bed to cuddle/play/get crawled on for about an hour, then we all get up and make breakfast or go out to get it. Our son just turned 1 and I thought by now we would be switching off and having sleep ins, but we've kind of gotten into the pattern and I really value that family time (I think my husband does too, although he's always been more of a sleeper inner than me, so maybe he hates it and bites his tongue!). I think this is also helped by the fact that our son sleeps through 99% of the time and we tend to go to bed earlyish.

Usually yes. But lately, sadly, we are both up before LO

I get up when the baby wakes and he gets up when the toddler wakes. It's usually the same time, 7ish but randomly one will get up earlier.