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Hey! Whose partner gets up with the kids in the morning? I can’t remember the last time mine did. It’s just become the norm that I get up everyday at 6:30am with both children & my partner swans down at about 8:30am (self employed)
Is this the reality for many others or am I being taken for a push over?
I also do bedtime every night & he barely makes it up the stairs to say goodnight. Is this normal?

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My partner gets up with the baby when he wakes early (5:45 today) and I got up with my toddler at 7.

He does every bedtime for toddler and I do the baby.

There has to be give and take - he should be helping you x

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I almost all night wakes as both mine still breastfeeding and/or can only be settled by me at night, I'm an stay at home mum. My partner works a full time full on physical job and he stikk gets the kids up on weekends every weekend. Even of that doesn't include breakfast and they watch telly the whole time, I still appreciate the extra sleep

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Both do it but at weekend he admittedly does it more.
I've done it a lot while it's been warm and sunny as i'm up anyway

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Me and my partner are currently in different bedrooms just as I was always up with her and I felt I was annoying him moving around constantly but I’m with the baby all day; all night he’ll occasionally do a bum change but more or less just me

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I do the nights and most mornings, but if I ask he'll always get up

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My partner does 6 bedtimes and on the weekend, one gets a lie in on Saturday and then swap for Sunday. He works full time in a very full on job, including commuting and travel, but, he says he does it because he wants to spend time with her.

I think you need to start pushing back a bit...he wanted a baby too?

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We are still in the early stages of having our second (1 month old) and luckily my husband is only working 3 days a week at the moment. So we went into it that I'll look after the newborn/do the night feeds etc. he currently sleeps in the spare bedroom and takes the monitor for the toddler. Days he isn't working he will get up with the toddler so I can get up whenever the newborn decides.
Days he works I take the monitor and get the toddler up for nursery.
Not sure how it will look once he's back to work full time but because of his work he needs a full night's sleep but we have a rule that I can wake him at any time no matter the reason and he will step in and he does no questions asked. Then same again on weekends he is on toddler duty until me and the baby are up. Plus if I have a rough night I know I can go for a nap (I tend to take the baby upstairs when I know he's going to sleep).

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This was the norm. We know better now. Tell him it's 2026, men have to be parents too, sorry!

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