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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you saw my family on the plane, you’d see me with two kids doing 100% of the entertaining and work while my husband is sleeping or reading. What you didn’t see was my husband up late the night before packing everything but my clothes or driving in rush hour traffic in a strange city when we landed. We’re a team. Don’t always assume that because one of us is on duty that the other parent is lazy or uninvolved. I also didn’t make my husband wake up and change diapers at night when I was breastfeeding. Unless the baby was crying for an hour or more, I did all the night feedings myself.  He would do things like dinner clean up and bath time so I could rest. I think having both parents involved al the time makes for two cranky, tired parents. [/quote]

But if you needed help what would he do? Say, kid 1 pukes and kid 2 needs help in the bathroom?  Does he sleep through it all? Or does he get up and help? [/quote]

So now Dads who don't wake at the drop of a pin are being condemned? Yesterday, I woke to discover my wife had left the room because she needed to attend to DD at 2AM. So that was my bad? [/quote]

I'm the PP, and my point was that a dad who is engaged with the family (and who might not be all the way asleep, but was dozing, or playing on their phone) would HELP if needed on the plane. A dad (or mom) who is disengaged would NOT help and would be annoyed that the kids needed them.

But yeah, my husband sleeps like the dead and wants a baby. NOPE, I'm not doing night feedings again ever, and he wouldn't wake up. So no baby, cause I don't want another kid and despite him being hands on with literally everything else, I can't handle the sleep deprivation again.[/quote]

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