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A Trusted Resource for Parents. How Can I Emotionally Support My Pregnant Wife? (with pictures) It's good to read through all the perspectives, both moms and dads to be.

How Can I Emotionally Support My Pregnant Wife? (with pictures)

I am currently 5 and a half months pregnant with my second child, and am completely afraid that my husband will resent his new daughter for the stress that we have experienced throughout this pregnancy. With our first daughter, he was amazing, and I am not sugar-coating anything. He was truly excited about being a dad, and was always there to support me, curious to know what I was going through and how he could help. We took trips together, the sex was great throughout, he would exercise with me and tell me how great I looked, and how attractive he found me. He didn't act like I was incapable of anything because I was pregnant, and stood up to people when they told me to stop landscaping or hiking. We decided to have another baby about a year ago, and started trying in November. We both decided to try again, and I conceived this child in May. How to Take Care of a Pregnant Wife. In today’s society, it’s easy to forget that there any major differences between the genders.

How to Take Care of a Pregnant Wife

Until your wife gets pregnant. Then the difference between the sexes will yawn like a great chasm before you. While your pregnant wife spends nine months growing a baby inside of her, you will be left to watch from the outside; after you’ve made your deposit, your role in the baby-making miracle is complete. But while your biological contribution might be over, if you’re like me, you’ll still want to be part of the pregnancy process.

Being a pregnant wife is tough. A lot of guys find the pregnancy process a little bewildering. A Pregnancy Survival Guide for Men - Health. Your wife's belly is burgeoning, baby furniture has maxed out your credit cards, and you have not had sex in weeks.

A Pregnancy Survival Guide for Men - Health

Somehow, pregnancy is not exactly what you or your wife had envisioned. Your once loving, carefree wife has become cranky and constantly nauseous. Welcome to the world of expectant fatherhood. Any type of adjustment is stressful, and preparing for a baby is an enormous change in one's lifestyle, mindset, and physical environment. If you find yourself wondering how you or your spouse will make it through the next nine months, you are not alone. Your wife may feel fine during the first few months of pregnancy, or she may be exhausted and need two naps a day. Morning sickness, or queasiness, affects only some women and most find that this annoying symptom disappears in 2-3 months. Scott Dornan, an expectant father recalls, "We must have called Jane's obstetrician a hundred times during the first trimester.

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