2 overnights while I was in the hospital for an appendectomy. I'll give him credit as my mom offered to take DS for the nights but H said he could handle it.
If it's just days, H has DS from 7-5:30 (plus travel time) 3 or 4 days a week whole I work and will continue to do so when we have two.
He took DS away for 2 nights at the lake, but that's it. I don't travel for work and can't think of any other time I've been away overnight and left DS with DH.
Edit: actually his dad was with them at the lake so technically I guess the answer is 0.
Once again, I have no idea because we don't count this, but I do know that I travel for work more often than he does. I also go out more at night than he does, so if that counts, then he definitely "solo parents" more than me.
It's not a term I use though, and not something we track.
Couple work trips. Next year it will be more. H keeps trying to pretend that won't be happening.
H has never been gone for more then 24 hours and left me with M . That may change in a couple weeks when M, our nanny and I go down to the beach for the week. I will work during the day and be on parenting duty at night. Big old bed to myself - nice to meet you !!!!!!'
0 because my parents live with us and are usually around even though I travel quite a bit for work. Technically, none of us have been solo with her for a whole day and night.
0 for this one as i'm still BFing morning and night. yes i could pump, but after a year of that twice daily at work i'm not choosing to do it unless i have to.
Probably a couple. There's been once or twice he wasn't awake when I left for work and was asleep when I got home. I might have been home for 15 min in the middle
Unfortunately, he will have 10 days of it in the next month. Hopefully his mom and dad can come over some and help.
By this time next week, it will be three days, so I voted in that category. By the end of the year, it will be between 7 and 12, depending on whether I have one or two more work trips.
I chose 21-30 days. I work every 3rd weekend, 12 hour shifts, and I don't see DD at all days I work because she's still sleeping when I leave for work and in bed by the time I get home. So at least 2 days a month, but more sometimes more DH is all on his own.
When I'm not on maternity leave, he does have to do a lot of solo nights and weekends with my schedule. When I go back I'm going to have even worse hours (now a possible 3-11pm shift) and it's going to suck for him.
I've been away a lot more than H has this past year. I've had 8 trips in the past year for about 40-45 nights total. Plus one random overnight with girlfriends. Most of my trip are 2 or 3 nights, which is not so bad. But 3 of those trips were ~10 nights each, which was rough.
1. I spent one overnight last August for my SIL's bridal shower and bachelorette party. I think it may have just barely been 24 hours.
I SAH so I don't have any work travel and haven't had any other opportunities to get away by myself or with friends, though I know my H would fully encourage it if I did.