The other night I took my 3 older children with me to grab some food for dinner and I left my baby girl at home with her Dad/My Partner. I was probably only gone for about 40 minutes. When I arrived home I came into my living room, the baby bath was out, towels on the floor, water on the tiles and my precious baby girl all bathed and clean. My Partner told me how she had spit up a bit and then had poo’d so he decided to bath her so she was all fresh before going to bed for the night.
At this time I was standing in the kitchen while he was telling me this, He then did a big sigh and kind of threw his hands up to the sides of him and said to me “I don’t know how you do it”. I responded with “Do what”? He said “You only went out of the house for a short period of time and left me with only 1 baby. I started getting the bath ready, turned the tap on, she was on her blanket when she spewed a bit so I ran to get the cloth, the tap was still running, I then went to finish getting the bath ready and she started crying, and then I had forgotten the wipes and the tap was still running etc and it just felt like so much was happening at once. It was full on and that’s only with 1 baby, and you have 4! I Don’t know how you do it.”
This put a smile on my face and really made me realise what a great job us Mum’s do. We forward think, we multitask, we keep the house functioning, the kids alive and happy, dinner on the table, the home tidy, the kids school run and lunches made and the multiple baby feeds through the night. We need to remember where our partner left his watch yesterday or where his specific pair of shoes are so he can wear them to work that day, and on top of that do our very best to keep our partners happy and satisfied while trying to do everything else to the best of our abilities.
Wow Mums, You’re Amazing. Not many men could do what we do, and we don’t even think twice about it. We just do what’s needed to be done.
So just wanted to take the time to say you’re doing a great job and keep pressing on.
Our Children and Men need us.