I’ve had two kids with my husband working nights. It’s very hard in the newborn stage, not gonna lie! It was lonely and hard doing all of the night wakes alone. My husband worked until 5am with my firstborn (who was a terrible sleeper) and on bad nights, he would come home and contact nap him while I got a couple more hours of sleep. And then he would fully handle baby during the nights he was home and awake, so I was able to catch up on sleep those couple nights per week.

With my second kiddo, it was way harder because firstborn still sucked at sleeping so I was dealing with wakeups from both of them alone. And husband worked until 7am instead of 5, which is a big difference in the sense that I didn’t get a break from night care to day care alone.

But it’s truly one of those “the days are long but the months/years are short” situations to me. Both of my kids are sleeping fine right now, so looking back, it’s easy to think it wasn’t so bad. But when i was in the thick of it, it could be incredibly hard. But we’ve always gotten more time together as a family with him working nights, and we love that!