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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband works FT and I work PT and we have an infant son. We need to hire help because working and caring for a baby is hard work. He knows it’s tough and tries to be involved as possible, but he doesn’t think we need any help. He thinks because the baby sleeps most of the day and is only awake for a short time, I can manage throughout the day. It’s more challenging than he realizes. I have to stop working to feed and then my son gets annoyed at times and wants to be held or wants to be interacted with while he is awake. I’m going back FT next month and just don’t know how I will manage without help. I need to convince him we need to help. [/quote]

He needs to watch the baby by himself for a full 24 hours.  A weekend would be better. Then he'll understand. My dad watched me when I was an infant because he was out of work and that has colored his whole view on caregiving for the rest of his life - I saw how he treated his employees (letting them telework and bring babies into the office in the late 1990s and early 2000s before it was commonplace) and how he helped me and my siblings when we had kids.

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