So I was searching online for an active message board about pregnancy and I was excited when I found one. I signed up and read a bunch of the posts on the first page. Well, two things struck me. One: OMIGOD it feels weird to be a newbie! All those people know each other and none of them know me. It made me wish this board were about whistles and pregnancy. And two: all they freakin’ talk about is pregnancy symptoms! No life stories, no relationship stories…just symptoms. It made me realize how well-rounded this board is. And I haven’t been involved in any board fights in a long time!!
I think there needs to be more discussion of the husbands’ symptoms.
Everytime my wife was pregnant I had every symptom she had. If she puked, I puked. If she had a leg pain I had a leg pain. All she had to do was imply that she had a symptom and I was immediately afflicted. :roll:
Funny though, as soon as she went into labor it stopped happening…whew!
It’s possible they all just got there an hour before you. If they were only talking about symptoms, how long could they possibly have been there? (insert baby emoticon here)
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Patrick, there is a name for that, you know (I forget what it is). I know pregnancy is hard on the guys…Dan has to hear me complaining almost constantly.
TX, I get the idea that these women were on the forum since they first started thinking about going off of birth control.
I played three whistles (all d: my beloved Abell, a Copeland A, and an O’Briain improved) and a flute (bamboo, made by Steve Cox of Tall Grass Winds) today. Dan has birds (the cats LOVE them!) and the birds dance when I play.
I suddenly feel really bad for Patrick (Doc), because I remember that he has something like 15 children. And he had sympathetic morning sickness? I’m nauseaus just imagining it.
I know how Patrick (Doc) feels. I had the same symptoms. Luckily my wive gave that all up about 20 years ago. Unfortunately, her belly returned to normal - mine hasn’t.
I didn’t have any children. Figured this would simplify
their lives. Hats off to those with the courage
and commitment! As the saying goes, May all your problems be
little ones.
Thanks Jessie for the compliment that this is a well rounded message board, and as you will eventually become…becoming… well rounded yourself
But being single again and never having children of my own, I understand that is it only a temporary condition, so I have absolutely nothing to say either as male, or someone who has lived with somebody with that condition. But good luck!
It is a temporary physical condition, but your life will be changed forever. You don’t yet realize the depth of love you will feel when y’all hold that baby and it dawns on the two of you that you’ll do anything for this child. There’s nothing like it!
My husband had it even worse! I didn’t have even a smidgen of morning sickness, but he had one heck of a time. In fact, he’s the one who told ME I was pregnant (I didn’t believe him, so I went out and bought a pregnancy test and lo and behold…).
Unfortunately for me, like you, he left the labor pains to yours truly
they get even heavier once they come to the outer world, and you carry them forever! LOL!
What’s temporary?
I’m still at my pre-childbirth weight! (note that I didn’t say pre-pregnancy weight)
I still crave chocolate (alright, I’ve always craved chocolate)
I still can’t sleep through a night without checking on at least one of them (not to mention the several times a night trips to the BR because my bladder never fully recovered!LOL!)
I still don’t often get to eat a really warm meal.
I still can’t imagine life without them.
I still get the heebeegeebees whenever one of them gets sick.
Pregnancy is eternal. And I wouldn’t change a thing!
Don’t worry, Annie – my mother hardle ever picks me or my brother up any more.
That I can’t speak to – my mother’s never been pregnant (I’ll leave you to figure that one out), and my wife hasn’t yet either. But it’s nice that you’re glad to have done it!
I suddenly feel really bad for Patrick (Doc), because I remember that he has something like 15 children. And he had sympathetic morning sickness? I’m nauseaus just imagining it.
I didn’t believe in sympathetic pregnancy until I got pregnant myself - I always uncharitabley thought men were putting it on. Then I got pregnant. I was in a completely different part of the country from my Dad, who started throwing up at about the same time I did, without his knowing I was pregnant. He apparently barfed his way through my mum’s pregnancies too, and she didn’t sympathise. (After all, we get the childbirth.)
Despite all the puking the ensuing offspring was just shy of nine pounds, and just over two foot long. Seriously, I’m not kidding. One of the first words uttered when Seamus finally made his grand entrance was one of the midwives saying, “Jesus Christ, it looks like she’s given birth to a toddler.”
He is seven, still huge, happy and healthy (more than can be said for my bladder to this day) and I wouldn’t change a thing about pregnancy and childbirth. Not the 5 months of puking several times a day, not fainting all over Oxford City centre, not thinking I was a fridge freezer half an hour before he was born.
One thing I would say though, lay off the pethidine if you can. It can do funny things to your mind. Take it early on, and if you don’t start babbling about security officers being metaphorical objects patrolling the hospital wards then you are probably okay. If you do babble, beware. Fridge-freezer identification awaits.
How pregnant are you now? Is he or she kicking yet?
