Husband needs to travel for work (one night) when the baby is 3.5 weeks old. He is the bread winner but I also feel 3 weeks PP is early?
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If he needs to then he needs to. It won't be the dream and obviously there's the caveat that if baby is ill/born later than expected etc that he will need to cancel. If it's part of his job then yeah it may be a bit shitty for you but it's just one night at least. Some people don't have partners, you know? And they manage(that's not to make you feel shitty I understand the worry! But it's absolutely possible to look after your newborn alone for a night). Is there a family member or something who could come and stay the night to be on hand if you need any support?

It is early but sometimes these things can’t be helped, especially with work. My partner had to travel away for one night at around the same time (he’d just started a new job), so I went to stay with my parents for the night 😅

My husband works night shift 50% of the time so is no help during that time. It was no issue for me at a few weeks pp
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