I wish my hubby can be more hands-on and supportive.. my hubby's idea of helping is by staying at home (not going out) with me.. all he does at home is to play iPad, surf youtube, online shopping.. while i do the feeding (via bottle), change diaper, bath, coaxing the baby to sleep 24/7.. I am so stressed out.. how can I talk to him about being more hands on? I need to have time out too..

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Take some time and sit him down to talk about it. Tell him that even 15 minutes of break for you is a luxury. Ask him to take a little bit of his time out to play and communicate with baby I.e. feeding baby. It will be hard to suddenly ask daddy to do the diaper change and coax baby to sleep as they do not know baby's preference as well as we do and I definitely do not trust for them to bathe baby so if you are feeding via bottle, that is a great opportunity for him to be a little bit more hands on. If it is your first baby, it will take some time for daddy to get use to accepting a baby into their life. They do not have natural maternal instinct like us. My husband took near to 6 months before starting to get a little bit more involve with baby.

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