New Mom Shares Brilliant Poem About Her Husband Sleeping Through Baby’s Crying

Raising a newborn baby is an incredibly tough thing for any young couple, but especially if it’s your first child, and everything is a new challenge, not least of which is losing an incredible amount of sleep almost every night.

A Danish expat named Caroline Andersen, who lives in Dubai, has been making headlines recently for the way she channeled these challenges into something creative – a poem about how useless the baby’s daddy was during the small hours of the morning.

“My husband is a fantastic dad,” Caroline said in an interview. “He is an amazing primary school teacher, and he has always brought a lot of fun and humor to our relationship, which he now also brings to daddyhood.”

However, during one of many sleepless nights, she found herself resenting the fact that Dad would often sleep through the baby’s mid-night crying sessions, leaving mom to take care of baby by herself.

Rather than venting on Facebook in traditional form, she decided that she would put her creative writing talents to good use, and came up with a brilliant poem to document her grievances.

You can read the poem in the Facebook post below:

The poem concludes:

“Whilst you sit on his lap and he sings you a song, 
You’ll love him and think daddy could do nothing wrong.
But my sweet love, here is a poem for you to keep,
So you know that all those long nights, dad was f***ing asleep!”

Although the poem is rather critical of Dad, it’s obviously written with a lot of love and affection for him, too.

The poem quickly started making headlines on the internet and attracted all sorts of attention online. At the time of writing, the post has over 16,000 shares on Facebook.

“After the poem went viral, I’ve read a lot of comments which have shamed him for not being more active at night and me for complaining about his inactivity,” Caroline said.

Since the poem took off, Caroline has set up her own page, The Mummy Poet, for any future poetic inspiration that comes her way.

It was Dad’s idea to set up the new page, after he grew to like the poem that had been written to mock him: “When I read the poem out loud to him the next morning, he didn’t find it particularly funny – though he was simultaneously trying to soothe our fuzzy daughter, so I might have chosen the wrong time to read him a mockery poem.”

“It was only later that day, over ice cream and a sleeping daughter, that he read it out loud and laughed and said it was brilliant. He since suggested that we get a laptop for me so I have an appropriate platform to write during my early morning waves of creativity.”

Great idea, Dad! It sounds like these two have a really healthy, fun relationship, which is something that is very important to new mom Caroline.

“Parenthood is tough and rough and can really strain a relationship. We make a solid attempt to place our relationship very high on our list of priorities. My parents (happily married for 29 years)- have taught me that a marriage should be prioritized above the children. As my mother said – “Happy parents results in happy children”.

It seems like this baby has a happy childhood ahead of her. Maybe she’ll inherit her mom’s talent for writing, too!

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