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[quote=Anonymous]Husbands should certainly help with all aspects of infant care, but in this case I am in his camp and not yours. You are on leave which is intended to account for the fact that you are up multiple times in the night for feedings and would be largely useless in the work setting because of short term chronic sleep deprivation. But you want your husband to be sleep deprived when he is back on the job full time and expected to be fully functioning? That doesn’t make sense to me. His job performance will be impacted and he could be harmed in the job by poor decisions he makes or poor communication he engages in with coworkers or supervisors while sleep deprived. How would that help your family? 
Surely there must be other places he could pick up slack during his waking hours so you would have less on your plate while you deal with the inevitable consequences of sleep derivation. If that’s not enough and you are going to let the resentment ruin your marriage, maybe it is worth it for you to invest as a family in a short term of night nannying. [/quote]

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