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Old Apr 16, 2008, 01:19 PM
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If anybody is liable to run into this problem, it's my husband. I am not super-worried, but a bit worried that it could happen (and I'm due in 2.5 weeks with our first). He gets overwhelmed and depressed quite easily.

One thing that we've decided to do is to put the baby's co-sleeper on HIS side of the bed. When the baby wakes up to be fed or changed, my husband will be the one to pick her up and place her for nursing, and we will take turns changing her. That way he gets to bond with baby both before and after nursing, and really be a part of the process. I'm hoping that this will help him feel left out.

He was absolutely overjoyed when I suggested it - he said that it would make him really happy if we arranged it that way.
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