The husband stayed home from work again today - though not to 'babysit', but to deal with his (googled) case of gastro. Ew.
It did raise an interesting point though - he slept in until after 1 (the baby and I went to mothers group) and then he sat on the couch and watched tv. He was hesitant (understandably) to do much with the baby as he doesn't want to make her sick. That said, I had swimming lessons tonight, so he had to do her dinner/bath/bed.
But what would or will happen if/when I get sick? Would he take a day off work to look after her while I'm also at home? Is it reasonable to expect it?
On the one hand, at it's most basic level, there is a sick adult and a well adult to look after the baby (and the sick adult).
But on the other, it's pretty much 'part' of being a mother that you (get to?) do the whole martyr thing...
Stay tuned on this one - the husband commented that she didn't each much dinner, so we might find out sooner than we had hoped to...
No comments:
Post a Comment