Anna CannonGuestDan GorringeGuestSteph DaveyHostHolly DaveyHost"My husband and I have a six-month-old, and I've started using the baby as an excuse to get out of things, mostly family events on his side.
I'll say he's unsettled, or the routine is off, or we need to get home for bedtime.
Sometimes it's true, sometimes I just don't wanna sit there in a lounge room for four hours passing my baby around.
My husband has worked it out and says I'm being unfair because I'm using my son as a shield instead of saying, [laughs] 'I don't wanna go.' I get that, but I also feel like since having the baby, everyone expects us to still show up the same way we used to, and I'm tired.
So my question for the pod is, am I wrong for using the baby as an excuse, or is it one of those few perks of being an exhausted parent?"
"My husband and I have a six-month-old, and I've started using the baby as an excuse to get out of things, mostly family events on his side.
I'll say he's unsettled, or the routine is off, or we need to get home for bedtime.
Sometimes it's true, sometimes I just don't wanna sit there in a lounge room for four hours passing my baby around.
My husband has worked it out and says I'm being unfair because I'm using my son as a shield instead of saying, [laughs] 'I don't wanna go.' I get that, but I also feel like since having the baby, everyone expects us to still show up the same way we used to, and I'm tired.
So my question for the pod is, am I wrong for using the baby as an excuse, or is it one of those few perks of being an exhausted parent?"
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