My husband leaves for work before 6AM every morning and gets home usually around 6 PM. He also has rather severe ADD which can be exacerbated by a lack of sleep. Since I'm the one lactating (and apparently the one with super-human hearing when it comes to a child of mine saying anything in the night), I just don't see the point in waking him up for him to bring the child to me. When said child is loud enough to wake him up, and especially if I'm obviously...um...emotional...about said child going back to sleep quickly, he is very good about offering to take the child. He's been especially helpful about bedtime and about giving our firstborn special attention since baby #2 came around. He's also great about letting me get out babyless pretty much whenever I ask or have something I need to do. If I were working outside the home, it might be a different story, but in our situation, it just doesn't make sense to me for both of us to be awake.