Househusbands - does anyone have one?

[Chully]

My husband decided (out of the blue, while I was on Maternity Leave) to jack his job in and become a househusband for a year or so. Or 'take a career break', as he puts it.
I've been back at work for 2.5 months now, and I have to say, it all seems to be working out pretty well.
But the down side is how hard it is for him to integrate into a 'womens world'. We still keep up with the people we met at our ante-natal group, so all the women there know and accept him, but other women tend to be suspicious if he talks to them! Also, I don't know where the alleged 149,999 other househusbands live, but we've yet to stumble across any of them!
Is anyone else in the same boat?

Has your DH managed to meet any other men who are the main childcarer?

We're out in Wiltshire - I suspect the whole 'househusbanding' thing is more common in London...

My DH is a HouseHusband and he LOVES it! He especially adores all the attention he gets ... he can't walk down the street or walk the dogs in the park without women throwing themselves at him stopping to admire the little one. He doesn't like going to M & T groups and prefers to do his own thing, but the one time he did go he loved it because everyone ran around him trying to make him feel welcome and DD was passed around everyone and he didn't have to do anthing.

Someone else on mn asked this the other day, Chully - you're certainly not the only one!

Glad I've found this strand - the website title sort of excludes these wonderful men, does it not?
i have the most amazing house husband. He stopped work when I went back to work when our second child was 7 months old. Until then his mum had looked after our first daughter when we were both working, but refused to look after two (my two ,anyway . It made sense as, whilst in Singapore, my expat wage was so much higher and easily supported us. (Not so now, with 7 of us and a teacher's wage, but we manage...and have no choice as what he might earn would not pay a child minder. Nor would a chilminder give the children what he can.)
And he's been at it ever since - now almost 8 years. He's twice thought he was on the verge of returning to work part-time and twice (the second and most recently with twins) been foilede by the arrival of a new addition.
He used to get some very strange looks when we lived in Singapore - not the done thing there, at all.
Here he tends to get spoilt when he goes to M&T groups - I hope he will continue with our newborn twins now that daughter number three is at nursesry.
He not only looks after our three girls - plaiting hair included - ferrying them too and from school 3 times a day (soon to include twins when I return to work in Sept), he shops, cooks, washes up, launders, hoovers and irons...and makes a much better job of it than I ever would. His only area of weakness is putting away laundry and cleaning...but then I guess I need to do SOMETHING.
What makes him even more remarkable is the fact that he is Asian (Malay) and housework/child rearing is definitely not a normal part of his culture.
I couldn't survive without him...and no, he is not for sale, or even hire!

My older cousin became a stay-at-home-dad when his dd was born 16 years ago. It was the only reason his dw would have a baby was if she could go back to work and he be the main carer. She has a very well paid job and at the time was very high up in an organisation that has recently been making headlines in Scotland anyway but she is luckily no longer with them!

He really enjoyed it, and his dd flourished. I always thought he should become a nursery teacher or something similar when he returns to work. He never seemed to get negative comments, even from the narrow minded members of our family but then he is very amiable. They live in Glasgow so it isn't a Londoncentric thing.

Zamed, I'm speechless! While my husband does a fabulous job looking after our ds (who is 7 months old and hero-worships him), cleaning etc simply doesn't happen! I consider myself lucky that I don't have to worry about sorting out getting the baby ready for a nursery before I go to work... I wouldn't know what hit me if I suddenly didn't have to cook/clean/do laundry etc either!!