This Mom Is Telling The Internet She Called Her Husband Out For The Lie He’s Been Using To Avoid Changing Their Baby’s Diaper
One mom recently called her husband out for the lie he’s been using to avoid changing their baby’s diaper after she caught him using it several times in a row.
She started out by saying that she has been married to her husband for 4 years and they have a baby girl that they welcomed 2 months ago.
Her husband already has some kids from another marriage, and he actually used to be a stay-at-home dad.
Her husband is pretty good with children, but now this mom thinks he has completely forgotten about taking care of newborn babies.
This mom took maternity leave when she had their daughter, and she is still not back to work, but her husband is currently working a full-time job.
“Things are busy right now and he gets really tired, which I try to understand but he seems to forget that having my daughter at home with me is also basically a full-time job and I need his help in the evening sometimes,” this mom sympathetically said.
Normally, this mom and her husband start getting ready for bed at around 9:30ish, and she does everything for the baby as he plays a “quiz game.”
Over the past 5 days though, this mom has begun asking her husband to step up and help more with the baby, such as changing her diaper.
For 3 straight days in a row, her husband insisted that the baby’s diaper is dry, but this mom knows that it clearly can’t be because the baby wore it for several hours.
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When she confronted her husband about it, he brushed it off. “…He just shrugged his shoulders and said maybe she doesn’t need a change before bed,” she explained.
“Completely ridiculous suggestion as it’s another 4 hours at least until she wakes up in the night, meaning she would have had 6-8 hours in the same nappy.”
“Last night her nappy felt full and about 10 minutes before we went up to bed I checked and it had a big blue line and looked like a fairly full wet nappy but when I went up he tried telling me again that it was basically dry and he didn’t think that nappy change was necessary anymore.”
She wasted no time addressing the lie with her husband, before pointing out that his laziness could cause their daughter to get a painful rash.
His response was to protest that he was too exhausted to do it and it’s really her responsibility to be changing the diapers.
She’s concerned this behavior is going to be carrying on forever and he’s going to keep avoiding just changing the baby’s diaper.
Here’s what the internet had to say.
“Your husband needs to take responsibility for his child and do his share. You look after her all day and I’m sure he’s more than capable of changing her nappy after work.”
“We all have to do some form of chores after a long day at work, a nappy on a child is just one of those responsibilities. Looking after a crying baby can be just as tiring as a full-time job.”
“I stayed home with our kids and my husband went to work. He handled 80-90% of baby stuff when he got home, because he knew I needed the break AND wanted to bond with his child.”
“Your husband needs to step up and put the safety of his child over his own laziness. I’d NEVER leave a kid in a wet diaper. She really could end up with a severe diaper rash, and he doesn’t even seem to care.”
“You guys better sit down and have a serious talk about this. It will get more hands-on later! Downtime only comes when the baby’s sleeping/napping.”
“Sounds like he doesn’t want to change diapers at all. It’s not right for you to be the only one to wake up in the middle of the night to check on the baby.”
“Women: stop reproducing with selfish men. It’s not fair to you; it’s not fair to your children; and, it’s not fair to other couples who see this crap and normalize it.”
“Do you want your kids to model their behavior after yours and have the same inequality in their relationships a generation later? Ugh.”
You can read the rest of what the internet had to say to her here.
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