Mine does! Our LO is 3.5 weeks old and it's very rare for him not to get up and help. I usually feed her and he'll put her back down and cuddle with her so I can get some sleep. I'm a lucky lady! It helps keep me sane 
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Yes, he usually does one of the morning feedings or he changes diapers before and after I nurse.
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Yes. He gets her and brings her to me for nursing. I take her back to her crib when she's done.
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He does the night feed when there is one. LO gets pumped milk and formula so he gets her bottle and feeds her.
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No rarely ever...and we have 3 kids.
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When our baby still woke up at night, we'd switch off nights. It made the sleep deprivation so much more manageable the second time around. With #1, I did it all because I was the only one capable of feeding the little one.
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When LO was little and colicky, yeah, DH got up and helped every single time. But as she got older and just needed a feed and went straight back to sleep, no, I'd let him sleep because there would be nothing he could do since LO refused a bottle.
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He did before his leave ended and when we were trying to cut back on night feedings. LO was a pro at not pooping at night and going back to sleep immediately before he had to go back to work, so it wasn't a burden on me.
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With DS1, he was always up with us. He'd keep me awake while I nursed DS1 and then he'd change diapers. With DS2 I did it all and didn't mind. If I needed his help he would have done it, no problem, but it was all easier the second time around so I let him sleep.
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Yep! Even 3 months in, he still gets up with me every time.
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When he was little and I was more sleep deprived DH would get him and bring him to me for nursing. Now I usually handle them all. I don't mind though. DH gets him at least one weekend morning so that I can sleep in a bit.
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When we did have night wake ups, we would alternate so that each of us would get a good stretch of sleep. I exclusively pumped in the beginning, so it was easier on me when he would grab a feeding here and there so that all I had to do was pump and go back to bed.
Now that it's usually just teeth, we'll also take turns. I have a darn good DH who shares the baby duties!
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It took a while but now he does. He makes bottles for DD when she wakes up.
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Thankfully yes! He handles the night wakeups if she does not need to eat. When DD was first born, i tried to be up with her most of the time since DH had to work, but he'd change a diaper or go in and rock her. Fortunately, DD slept really well from the start!
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Yes - we've been very equal since she was born. He also does her 5am feeding everyday. We're hoping to drop that one soon - haha.
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Yep! Still does. He also usually gets her every morning so I can sleep in.
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Jealous.
DH has done night duty exactly once. He was back at work when she was six days old. Fortunately she STTN and only ever did one or two wake ups as a newborn. -
He used to, but he's not so great at it since going back to work full-time. Luckily, Xander seems to mostly be sleeping through the night, though when he woke up this morning at 4:30, Hubs hopped out of bed to get him and change his diaper before I fed him, so sometimes he still helps out!
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My husband and I switch off each night. Most of the time both kids sleep through the night, now, but on the occasion that one of them gets up, it's nice to know you can get a full night's sleep the next night.
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Nope. But I EBF and i'm a SAHM. He will wake up with LO when he gets up in the morning a few days a week so I get some extra sleep.
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If I ask him to, he does.
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He was when it was multiple times, he did diaper changes. Now she usually only gets up once to eat. So I just get up especially since I go into her room now to feed her since she sleeps in there now.
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He does his best to help. But LO is securely on team mommy right now and so sometimes she refuses to be soothed by him. She currently is cutting her first tooth, has a double ear infection, and diarrhea/terrible diaper rash from the antibiotics. Nights have been rough to say the least. Not to mention I'm sick with my own sinus infection and we both work full time.
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I'm ebf, so not normally - unless l is extra fussy and we know he doesn't need fed. On the weekends and the rare weekdays that he is up befire me, he will get him, change him and bring him to me to be fed in the morning.
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At that age yes, but now he's back to work, so I get up. She's also going through a phase where only I can put her down for a nap or for bed or she screams (LO is 6 months). I wish he could help some nights!
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During the three weeks he was off when the boys were born, DH was up at every night feeding with me. After he went back to work and I was still on maternity leave, I handled the night feedings so he could get a good night's sleep since he had to work. Now that we're both back at work, the boys don't have night feedings anymore, but if one or both wake up, we alternate who gets up to tend to them (but that's always just popping the pacifier back in and rewrapping their swaddle).
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I always stay up late until 11 or 12 and he would do the 3:30 am feeding all by himself ; ). On weekends he even gets up and lets me sleep in. (He's an early riser.)
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At the beginning, he would get up and bring him to me so I could nurse, but then he went through a phase of never wanting to get up in the middle of the night. Now we trade off if he wakes up, which is rare.
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Wow - so many of you ladies have such amazing SOs!
My DH doesn't help (which isn't to say he isn't still amazing), mostly because I've told him I don't expect him to. He works and I stay home, so I can grab a nap during the day but he can't. He does do bedtime though (gives her a bottle of breast milk and gets her to sleep) so that I can go to bed before DD settles for the night, so that works for me.
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If it's before we go to bed he'll take it, other than that, not really. He works crazy long hours right now, though, and I don't want him getting hurt because he's tired (he works in a warehouse).
He does often get up with him in the morning so I can catch a bit of sleep, though. And on the weekends he'll get up at least once (and still take mornings). I still do the bulk but it works out okay.
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He does most of the wakeups....sometimes he will ask me to wake up and make a bottle but he does 85% of the wakings. I am incredibly lucky!
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He did for a few weeks but now I have the hang of it (and am not working) plus she only gets up once or twice a night. I don't even get out of bed to tend to her. He does Friday nights so I can sleep, too! When I go back to work, we will split the nights
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Nope. Never.
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Yes, all the time! My son has been going through some night terrors lately and has been calling out for my DH every night. So we decided that if my son gets up, he would go in. And if my DD gets up, I would go in. Thankfully my daughter has been STTN so mama gets a good night's rest.
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He used to help more, now he helps one feed a night (I breastfeed and pump). My son is 9 weeks and wakes usually 2 or 3 times. But he sure has a hard time getting him back to sleep
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Before LO STTN he got up with her more then I did. I get back migraines and lack of sleep is a major trigger.
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When she was waking up and I was back to work full time we went every other night, but now she STTN so it's not an issue. He wakes up and gives her the morning bottle while I get ready though! Weekends, we usually do every other morning on who gets up at 6 with her.
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We don't get up anymore but when we did/do, DH didntt get up during the night at all.
On weekends, he always wakes up before me anywas, so I sleep in and him & LO do their own thing until I wake up. -
Not until the early morning - if A is fussing but doesn't need to eat my husband will get up and change his diaper
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yep! he helps still! now that she goes all night without changing though, i usually just feed her and put her back down. if she poops though, he'll change her diaper. she's still in a cosleeper next to us though!
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