It is nothing new that by becoming parents we lose many hours of sleep. When there’s a baby at home, nighttime awakenings are continuous and we don’t get enough rest to face the next day bright and in a good mood. Not to be discouraged, but unless your baby is lucky enough to sleep through the night, that won’t happen again more or less until he goes to elementary school (well, maybe I’m exaggerating a bit).
One mother, Mattea Golf recently had one of those doggy mood mornings, because she has a five-month-old who is breastfeeding, and especially that night she had slept very little. When her husband asked her why she was so irritable in the morning , she couldn’t find the words to express it, so she decided to explain it to him in funny pictures .
The difference: he does not have breasts that produce milk
Mattea and Kris have two girls, one five years old and the other five months old, who are breastfed and breastfeed at night, on demand , as is normal for young babies.
The husband assures that he is also involved in the upbringing of the girls, that he gets up at night as needed. But that night, he had slept soundly when his wife had woken up several times to breastfeed her daughter. And when I asked him in the morning about his bad mood, he had the great idea of explaining it to him in drawings.
Everyone is sleeping
Useless nipples
Two hours later…
Slack, slack, slack ….
I really have to cut her nails
Still useless nipples
Well I need to clean this
Kicks
I’m freezing. Why is she so sweaty?
Good morning darling. Isn’t it great to sleep? Let’s snuggle
The mother’s Facebook post has been shared more than 200,000 times, and she has received thousands of comments from other mothers who find it funny and very real.
One last clarification
Days after the publication, she wanted to add a clarification about some comments she had received about her husband, and she did so also through a drawing and a text:
“I think most people understood exactly what I was trying to convey, but to be clear, I was not really trying to vilify the person who is sleeping, my husband, aka Mr. Useless Nipples.
Breastfeeding was solely my decision, and it is something that my husband greatly supports and appreciates . He is a very involved father in many other ways. It’s true that even the best of dads can step it up every now and then and I may or may not fantasize about kicking him out of bed when he can sleep through most midnight adventures (a talent I don’t possess …). Being a mother is really hard work, but so is being a good father and I love and appreciate him for that . “
Via | Buzzfeed
