How To Avoid the Baby Blues

In my Family Relations class we were talking about how having a baby can affect your marriage in a negative way. Both the husband and wife need to work even harder than before. This can put new stresses on them. A mother's workload increases 64% and a father's workload increases by 37% in the first six months. Sometimes the husband could feel left out because most of the wife's attention is on the new baby and most of the time he starts to withdraw. He can start to put his attention elsewhere. The wife, therefore, thinks that the husband is being selfish because of his withdrawal and his attention being elsewhere. This makes the husband perceive their wives as disagreeing more than she did before therefore decreasing marital satisfaction. Overall, these things don't bring the spouses closer together like a newborn baby should. I think a solution to this could be just talking to your spouse in a loving way about what you need from them. Communication is key!