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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It always baffles me when people say they want to go through the first days together just as a nuclear family. Those are the worst! I come from a culture where women are looked after by their parents for at least 40 days after childbirth, and I can tell you that it helps you recover much faster. My parents came and stayed with me, looked after all of the cooking, laundry, etc. My husband handled the shopping while he was on paternity leave but once he went back to work I took over that task, but otherwise just being able to rest in between feeding the baby was great.[/quote]

Don’t you think DH would step up more without the help? If things are relatively easy during the first month, I’m concerned that he’ll underestimate how hard it is for me alone once he goes back to work. Plus he’ll be used to not doing the things my mom would help with for the first month and once he’s back to work, I would have to take over those tasks. Whereas if he did them from the start, he would at least know how much more I would have to take on once he’s away [/quote]

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