The couple welcomed a little girl, Faith Evangeline, on 13 July (12) and the former Frasier star admits he and his partner have had their share of sleepless nights since they do not want a nanny relieving them of their duties.
He tells U.S. late show host David Letterman, “My wife Kayte is a very hands-on mum. I’m a hands-on dad. We’re very happy about it. We don’t need help. That’s been something that when Kayte and I first started talking about starting a family, she had this way of looking at it. I said, ‘Listen honey, you know, you don’t have to be with the baby all the time… If you want a nanny, we’ll have one.’
“She said, ‘Well, if in the middle of the night I hear my baby crying, I don’t want to get up, walk into the room, and have somebody else standing there saying I’ve got this.’ You can’t argue with that… (so) we sort of just trade off.”
The actor has had plenty of practice as a father – the newborn is Grammer’s fifth child. He has two kids with his third wife Camille, and another two from previous relationships.
