DH told me tonight that he doesn't remember the birth of our second child, he knows he was at the hospital and in pictures but doesn't remember the birth or bringing DC home the next day. I mentioned a few details and he said he sort of remembered now I said it but he doesn't know day of the week, time of day, anything that happened etc. He doesn't remember what DD2 was like as a baby, or that I took her back to hospital at a few days old for example. Nor that she attended nursery for a few weeks at 1 year old before stopping.
The birth itself was very straightforward, and it was during winter lockdown where not much was going on besides, but my memory is really clear down to tiny details. He said he does remember DD1 as a baby a bit, and remembers bringing her home from hospital because the car seat was really heavy!
He has often forgotten conversations etc we've had earlier in our relationship and says his childhood was a blur (although apparently reasonably happy) but his memory for other events, work stuff, etc. seems reasonable and his short term memory too - he remembers everything that happened recently. Although he is much more involved now they are older he didn't seem to want to do much with them as babies at all - he slept in the spare room and I breastfed and did pretty much everything else until they were at least 1 (2.5 with DD1) so maybe that's why but I'd have thought he'd remember the births/bringing them home in more detail. He was a bit emotional when we talked about it which is really unlike him.
Can anybody else relate to this? Neither of us are sure what to think but I am a bit worried.