tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-277645337057523938.post70145552677617051..comments2023-06-23T05:46:59.718-07:00Comments on With baby in NYC: it's not always a bed of rosespregnant in Manhattanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08333995994257361589noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-277645337057523938.post-83882564997964548292010-03-12T12:37:58.637-08:002010-03-12T12:37:58.637-08:00I still tell Cowboy all about my aches and pains a...I still tell Cowboy all about my aches and pains and how many times I vomitted that day. Still, I know he will never really 'get it' how constant and draining a pregnancy is. <br /><br />But in a few weeks when you can feel baby move and he will never ever know what that feels like, it will put a smug little smile on your face. We women go through a lot, but there are also many things that I would never change places for. If men could bear children too, I would still ask to do it everytime.<br /><br />It also prepares you for when baby arrives. Sure his sleep will suffer a bot too and his life will be busier, but yours will change forever and it will be hard for you to explain that to him. How consuming a baby is to its Mum. You have done most things equally so far but parenting is usually very different for each parent, and neither one can really 'get' what the other one has gone through.Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08050880029224884665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-277645337057523938.post-25523672752505191222010-03-12T09:17:47.959-08:002010-03-12T09:17:47.959-08:00Oh, girlfriend...I think I wrote a post very much ...Oh, girlfriend...I think I wrote a post very much like this one a while back. I wish that there was an easy answer.<br /><br />I have screamed and cried and thrown things...and even hit Mike in the back of the head with a plate...all things that are out of character for me, too. And you are a stranger in your own body...where do you go to escape yourself?<br /><br />First, I say give yourself a break. You really, really can't help it. I know it, you know it and your hubs will come to understand it. Would he be open to reading a baby book for dads? Even a chapter or two (What to Expect has a pretty good chapter that hits the high notes of why your wife has suddenly lost her mind). That helped us temporarily until I could better figure out how to explain some things to him.<br /><br />I still refer him to those books when I'm having an unexplainably bad day. :)<br /><br />And not to be a downer, but there are still days that we don't communicate well...it IS better but not 'fixed' by any means. We've both had to change what we expect from each other and how we talk to each other and there are sometimes that it's stil not enough. I think you just have to take it one day (sometimes one MOMENT) at a time and deal with things as they come. But it will be better than it was!<br /><br />Not much help, am I? Sorry...<br /><br />I hope that today is a better day. Hugs to you (but none to your hubs...tell him to deal ;p).Kellihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15049992666664283399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-277645337057523938.post-8282951311582416322010-03-12T04:46:53.528-08:002010-03-12T04:46:53.528-08:00I never thought about how being pregnant would not...I never thought about how being pregnant would not just affect me but my hubs. <br />It was frustrating not being able to eat anything. My hubs would make whatever for supper and I would eat it or whatever I could! There are some days when my hormones are not very nice to him and I have to make a consience effort to think if I am hungry or just moody! <br />Being pregnant is such a transition that I thought somehow would be puppies and rainbows and it isn't all the time!<br />Feel free to air your laundry of it helps you! This is your blog to express your feelings!!!<br />(((hugs)))Courtneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07759602178624977536noreply@blogger.com