Before the baby life was very easy. Just do as I (and my girlfriend) wanted, when we wanted. No real concerns. A lot of freedom with regards to how to spend tim

Before the baby life was very easy. Just do as I (and my girlfriend) wanted, when we wanted. No real concerns. A lot of freedom with regards to how to spend time. After our baby was born, initially my girlfriend spend most time with our daughter. I did carry our baby around a bit, but did not really do any of the other things like feeding, cleaning diapers and such. My girlfriend seemed to really want to do these tasks, so I let her be. When our daughter got a bit older, initially my girlfriend was annoyed that I didn't play much with our daughter. But I guess when the baby is still very small, it just something that is hard to do for me, perhaps because I am male. Children don't get that interesting for most men until you can more properly interact with them, from what I understand, so I shouldn't be an outlier here. Once our baby could walk a bit and talk I would spend much more time playing with our daughter. And our daughter now much prefers to play with me compared with my girlfriend. Nowadays (daughter 5.5 years old) I feel as my girlfriend still mostly takes care of the feeding and showering as well (though I am happy to shower our daughter if she asks for it, as she did like up until half a year ago). I spend a lot of time playing with our daughter each day. We both help her a bit with homework. Now our daughter does tend to get sick a couple of times a year, so that can be a bit of a hassle. We both get a bit more easily sick now as well. I guess it got something to do with our daughter going to school now and getting germs and spreading those in our home. Since I work at home, it can be a hassle to work at times, especially if our daughter has a day off from school. She wants to spend all day playing with me, while I try to focus on doing work.