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Sometimes. If I'm not home or they are out together he changes him. But if all three of us are together I'm usually the one that does it. .
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with first baby I didn't change a diaper for a week! I had to say "hey I got this one!".
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I said yes, because he DOES, but the number is very low. Maybe 1 for every 50 I do.
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Yes. Sometimes more than I do! He's very compassionate to the fact that we're nursing and will always change her where come home from somewhere so I can have a few minutes to go to the bathroom or change before we sit down to nurse. He goes above and beyond but if he didn't or wouldn't change diapers we'd have a big problem!
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I voted "It's a touchy subject." He does change diapers, but he refuses to put her in cloth. Every time he changes one, it's into a disposable and it drives me nuts. I try not to be bitter about it.
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@photojane: similar to you! DH does change diapers, but I do it way more often!
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Yep. Not nearly as much as me but he does.
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Yup, he does. I change them more often, but that's also because I'm home with LO more often than he is. On the weekends, it's pretty equal.
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He changes more than I do.
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Yes - if he wasn't going to do all of that stuff, we wouldn't have a baby
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Yes he was on diaper change/ bath time duty from day one since I was recovering from my c-section and has been very involved ever since (usually on the weekends though since he gets home late during the week).
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He changes more diapers than I do! (he didn't the first year, only cause I was a SAHM)
I don't know any dads that don't change diapers.
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@Smurfette: honestly I would't be surprised if KIM didn't change diapers either... and they just hire a FT personal nanny for that type of stuff...
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Yes. On the weekends it's totally even. During the week though he often goes without changing her diaper because I get her ready for school, and I get her ready for bed, and those are the only diapers that get changed at home.
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I wonder if the numbers are skewed due to single moms where the dad isn't in the picture? That number seems awfully low. DH definitely changes diapers.
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@rahlyrah: very interesting idea. That must play a crucial part.
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@twodoghouse: my DH did all the hospital ones too!
DH does almost every single one when he is home. Yesterday my girlfriend with a newborn said she sees it like "she makes dinner, her husband cleans up." Aka she BFs and he cleans the effects of that when he is home.
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@grizz: amen sister
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@rahlyrah: maybe ! They didn't really make it seem clear as to if they surveyed moms and dads or just dads
Here's the link to the survey
http://m.today.com/parents/modern-dads-survey-75-percent-dads-call-fatherhood-their-most-2D79768109
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Yep. He actually changed all the diapers in the first week of DS's life.
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He does most of the diaper changing when he is not at work... of his own volition! He is also involved in feeding and changing and putting her to sleep. We have never understood men who feel like they're doing some great favor by being involved in baby's care!
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Yes he does. I SAH, so I change more during the week, but her never hesitates to change the kids. And I don't think I changed a single diaper in the hospital with either kid(our pediatrician changed each kid once though haha)
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@Mrs. Sunshine: this. I mean he will but he just doesn't think about it, if he's got the babe and feels he's wet or poopy he'll get up and change him
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dh does! I change more since I'm a SAHM but we take turns on the weekends. My bil absolutely refuses to change his sons' poopy diapers which drives my sil crazy.
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Of course! It's not an option for him not to... we wouldn't have had children if he wasn't committed to being an active participant in raising them.
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@grizz: I'm going to have to agree with you there. A family friend bragged to DH that he hadn't changed a single diaper with any of his three kids and DH said "I wouldn't say that so loudly... unless you want the whole world knowing that you are kind of an ass."
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Definitely! I change more because I'm with them more but whenever he's home he's changing right along with me!
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Yes but usually only if I ask first. He is getting better about changing DS1 when he first gets up and if he poops.
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I change diapers more often because LO comes to work with me and I SAH part-time, but DH will change diapers after work/on weekends and he always gets up in the MOTN to change his diaper before I nurse him.
I can't believe that only 54% of dads change diapers. I think that's so unfortunate. It's not the most glamorous job, but it is part of parenting your children. I know my DH bonds with our son a lot during diaper changes because DS is always super smiley and interactive during/after diaper changes. I feel sad for those dads that are missing out on that!
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Yep! He's a SAHD, so he has no choice. He totally would though even if he weren't.
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@twodoghouse: me too!
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All the time! I can't imagine him.not changing diapers....
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It ebbs and flows. Right now it's pretty rare for him to change diapers, maybe once or twice in the past month? It's just how our routines are at this stage. When LO was fighting diaper changes, DH did almost all diaper changes.
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I'll let this handsome dinosaur say it for me
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@blackbird: lol
my dh does for sure. the first week he did almost all of them because with my c section it was hard for me to get up and down, so he got comfy with it fast.
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@NavyRN2012: Same here! Since he stays at home I'd bet he changes way more than I do. Either way though, he'd be pulling his weight in diapers.
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When I was a SAHM I definitely handled the bulk of them, just because I was there and he wasn't. But when we're both there it's pretty evenly split...I'd even say he now changes more than me, since he started doing any night changes after I went back to work. And since E can be very...willful...during diaper changes, on the weekends sometimes we both do it, lol (one to distract, one to change...)
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Yes all the time. He had never changed one before LO arrived but this has never been an issue. We often do them together when we are both home cause she's awfully squirmy.
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Definitely. I was like some of the PP, where for the first few weeks I hadn't done any DH did them all. We had an "input vs output" arrangement. Now, if he is home he will get J up in the morning/from a nap and change him while I go to the bathroom and get ready for bf. Other than that, its pretty even. He joked before J was born that he wasn't going to do any, but I can not even imagine him actually not doing it.
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Of course. I do way more, being SAHM, but when we are together he does his share. I do admit sometimes he has to call me for reinforcements. He saves it for the really nasty ones, so I usually do help him and have him distract her and keep her hands out of the poo at least.
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