Would your partner cope?

If you had to switch roles and your partner had to be a full time stay at home mum while you went off to work? (ok so im stealing this idea from elsewhere lol ) but I snorted into my drink thinking hahah hell no!

Yep. DH was a stay at home dad for a year with our daughter.

He was really great at it!

The only thing he didn't do was cook dinner but he looked after her, cleaned the house, did all the washing & ironing etc.

It would be awesome if I earned enough for him to keep doing it but we really needed the second salary

Definately not, he doesn't have the paitence to put up with the constant questions and the grizzling and moaning. Don't get me wrong, he is a great Dad but even he says he could not do my job

Yep, no worries

DP is great with Jude in all aspects - food/mealtimes, nappies, cleaning up, bedtime, coping with whining and crying etc.

A friend asked how DP was at changing nappies last week - I gave them a blank look as I was trying to figure out what they meant! Realised they wanted to know whether he did it or not and I laughed and laughed. When we are both home - we both do the chores, dirty nappy changing and all.

TBH - he would probably be much better than me at household chores and cooking (well.... if I'm being really honest there is no probably.... he would just be much better than me) . Before we shifted jobs he used to do pretty much all the cooking (now his hours have changed significantly and he doesn't get in until later and we like to sit down to breakfast and dinner together - I do the porridge and dinner.....90% of the time....)

Main reason why it's not him at home and me at work is because of the boobs - and the whole pregnancy thing. As much as I joked to him during pregnancy and after labour last time - "It's your turn to do this next time!" Unfortunately biology hasn't made this possible! Darn.....

Our goal is to get a job where we can both work and parent roughly the same amount (we are dairy farmers).

DP is bloody awesome.

Edited by Delli

Linzy wrote: Definately not, he doesn't have the paitence to put up with the constant questions and the grizzling and moaning. Don't get me wrong, he is a great Dad but even he says he could not do my job

Ditto!!!

my husband could do it. i find it a bit weird that some wont dont do it. right from the start we have shared in all the baby stuff - except feeding cause hubby doesnt make milk - and i have always felt confident that my husband could look after the kids if something happened to me.   sure he might not put the right stuffing in a cloth nappy, or do things exactly as i do or make lunch the same way but he knows how to look after his kids.

NOOOO! Well at least not full time. The most he seems to be able to handle is about an hour at a time rofl!

Nappies, he literally vomits if it's anything other than pee! And even then he puts them on so loose that she leaks and requires several outfit changes!

He can get her off to sleep, fine I guess... A bit of crying is usually involved!

But I don't think he'd be able to manage full time. He will be looking after her for 3 weeks next year while I go back to study, I start before him and he will be studying too. Will be interesting to see how they get on!

Yep, absolutely. He is so good at everything when it comes to our kids and the household. He is the one that keeps me in line,

I dont know if my DH could do it.... I love being a SAHM.... and have asked him before and he thinks he would rather be able to get up and go to work each morning..... although in his defence he is VERY domestic, so if push came to shove, he would most likely be fantastic!!!

Yes, my DH is wonderful -- he works from home 3 days a week and looks after DS while I work on those days. And he used to be a chef so he even cooks way better than I do!    (I'm very spoilt and I know it