Somebody tell me why dads can sleep through the baby crying and don’t even wake up to make sure they’re ok!

I’ll never understand why my husbands phone alarm can wake him up but the baby screaming bloody murder doesn’t. I changed and nursed the baby, put her in her bassinet when she fell asleep and ran upstairs to shower before she or my toddler woke up. Tell me why I can hear her from the upstairs bathroom when she’s in our room in the basement but her father who is about two feet away can’t?? And why do guys simply turn over and go back to sleep when they are awakened by the baby? I just don’t get it. Any noise from the baby and I’m up checking her breathing! It’s like he can ignore the baby crying but somehow the world will end if I do. Come on they gotta start making dads like moms or we ladies are all gonna lose our minds!!

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It’s because he’s “trained” to know you will deal with it so his body won’t wake up. His body is “trained” to wake up to his alarm

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