My good ol’ friend Sammy, sent this excerpt from an article:

Midnight Chicken
Also known as Who Will Blink First? It goes something like this: It’s 3:00 a.m. The baby is awake (again) and crying (again). You are both awake. You both hear her. But nobody moves. Women are tacitly calling in their chit (Surely he knows it’s his turn this time?), but men, the masters of this game, simply play dead (maybe they throw in a little snoring). They can’t hear the crying because they are sound asleep. Who will cave in and get up first? Needless to say, it’s usually Mom.

Our friend Charlotte, however, plays a mean game of Advanced Midnight Chicken: “I used to nudge my husband when the baby would cry and say, ‘Hey, you’re up. I got her last time.’ But there really was no last time.� She’d been asleep all along, but he didn’t know it. So don’t get too comfortable there in the bed, Daddy-O.

— Stacie Cockrell, Cathy O’Neill and Julia Stone, via MSNBC.com

I think it is awesome… Is this a wake-up call (literally) to all lazy husbands out there?? =)

While the article has a fresh and funny approach, it brings up serious scenarios, that may help you understand and be pseudo-prepared for the arrival of your baby.

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