When your wife got pregnant
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For the first kid, my wife wanted nothing to do with chicken. Since she's allergic to pork, the meal options became interesting. She would crave McDonalds fries though. I think I nearly matched her pound for pound during her first pregnancy.
She never got too crazy, although she would cry at the most random times. Traffic back-up? Cry. Right before bed? Cry. Life insurance commercial? Cry. Sitting down to eat? Cry. Horribly sad movie? Nope! Snide comment followed by anger at the lack of reality of the situation.
She never got too crazy, although she would cry at the most random times. Traffic back-up? Cry. Right before bed? Cry. Life insurance commercial? Cry. Sitting down to eat? Cry. Horribly sad movie? Nope! Snide comment followed by anger at the lack of reality of the situation.
I haven't seen this one on here yet...my wife had a huge aversion to the smell of our dogs. We have two, 70 lb dogs, and they are lap dogs. So, that created some challenges. I would wash the dogs and before they were dry she'd complain they still smelled the same. She went through a McDonald's sausage, egg, and cheese phase in the first trimester. This was before McDonald's had all day breakfast (not sure if that's a good or bad thing).
This actually sounds really terrible. Especially with my really large baby, you're always a little worried about peeing your pants, but throw coughing in too?
My first time, my water broke when I bent over to pick something up. And so we spent a good 20 minutes trying to decide if my water broke or I peed my pants lol. Decided given the volume to go to the hospital.
It was almost a dealbreaker the first time we ordered pizza. We can't get veggie or supreme because OOOOLIVES.
This is, in Janny style, a small embellishment. I didn't eat more than about 10 oz. And it was medium, not medium rare. But I did also take down the asparagus and mashed potatoes. And it was in record time. Our daughter was fascinated.
Yeah, I tended to run really low. The prenatal vitamins would make me vomit even more, so my OB had to take me off of them (and just do some things individually) - so my iron would get really low. We never had to do supplements because I ate quarter pounders like they were going out of style.
It was pretty awful and I felt horrible for her because there wasn't much she could do. She would be fine a good chunk of the day but as soon as she laid down in bed she would cough and cough and cough. We basically spent both of her pregnancies sleeping in separate rooms.
See that's where she went wrong, craving something healthy for the child and all just makes you puke.
Needed Sour Patch Kids and strawberry pop.
I really only puked much the first time, but it was severe. Actually pulled off on the shoulder on Highway 141 to do it.
I forgot that I drank a crap-ton of Welch's strawberry soda with the same pregnancy where I craved SPKs!
Same here. Since I couldn't gain any weight, and never really popped out, my kids went up into my rib cage. I would get HORRIBLE reflux (and the hyperemesis made it worse). I'd wake up in the middle of the night choking on the reflux, and thought I was going to drown. It's awful. And Prevacid only does so much.
I had a terrible cold during one pregnancy and there just isn't much you can take for it then to relieve the symptoms. Also had a high fever and the pediatric dentist said it was why enamel didn't form on some of my son's baby teeth, he had to get caps on them.
I thought I was the only one! That's my son who got a 36 on the ACT, I think it must be brain food.
My wife turned into a nester. Every free moment turned into a "lets improve this now, because once the baby comes we wont get the chance." I built a deck, built a privacy fence, landscaped the back yard and finished the basement in the course of about 8 months, and she was right there with me helping, up until she physically couldnt anymore. To her credit, she was correct, my social life and free time evaporated 13 years ago and 3 kids later.
She was pretty much her normal self her 1st trimester, only she got the glow. She was drop dead gorgeous her first trimester (not that she wasnt before or isnt now, but the Glow was stunning). The increased intimacy came in the 3rd trimester for her.
Only real attitude she ever gave me was her demand that I give up alcohol too. If she couldnt then I couldnt. I had no problem with this actually, I agreed with her. Granted we both love beer and wine, but to walk away from it for 9 months wasnt anything life altering for me.
3 kids and no real food cravings or disgusts.
And the WALKS! She took lots and lots of walks. She scared the heck out of me with all 3 pregnancies because she could never sit still and relax.
She was pretty much her normal self her 1st trimester, only she got the glow. She was drop dead gorgeous her first trimester (not that she wasnt before or isnt now, but the Glow was stunning). The increased intimacy came in the 3rd trimester for her.
Only real attitude she ever gave me was her demand that I give up alcohol too. If she couldnt then I couldnt. I had no problem with this actually, I agreed with her. Granted we both love beer and wine, but to walk away from it for 9 months wasnt anything life altering for me.
3 kids and no real food cravings or disgusts.
And the WALKS! She took lots and lots of walks. She scared the heck out of me with all 3 pregnancies because she could never sit still and relax.
My wife craved malted milk balls and Dr Pepper which was easy to keep on hand. Threw up daily for the first 8 months and 3 weeks. When we were driving and she said she was getting sick I didn't look for a gas station but rather did an immediate break and serve manuver to the shoulder. Usually had between 5 and 10 seconds warning time.
Nothing crazy considering the circumstances. She got really tired really quickly and toward the last month of the first baby she had some bad swelling in her legs and feet. We were more diligent the second time around about staying hydrated and cutting way back on the sodium in her diet.
The pregnancy is tough, but the real test is the first few months after the baby arrives. It's one thing for one partner to be exhausted and feeling like hot garbage. It's something else when you both feel like that plus there's a crying infant in the picture.
The pregnancy is tough, but the real test is the first few months after the baby arrives. It's one thing for one partner to be exhausted and feeling like hot garbage. It's something else when you both feel like that plus there's a crying infant in the picture.
I thought I was the only one! That's my son who got a 36 on the ACT, I think it must be brain food.
Right? Between mainlining sugar and red meat, I figure my kids should be on-par with Hawking.
Currently in the middle of our 2nd pregnancy and can relate to a lot of what people have shared here. Pregnant women are just a hot mess of hormones and emotions. Plenty of mood swings and freaking out over the littlest of things, heightened sense of smell so everything in the house either smells awful or magnified so even farting in the same room as her seems a lot more dramatic than it used to as it goes from usually "no big deal, I'm used to it by now" to her thinking you crapped your pants. Same with cooking, either something simple now smells great or any kind of odor from something like garlic, onions or seafood that usually was no big deal before now smells awful and overpowering. My wife usually gets tired earlier and goes to bed between 8-9pm most nights so that gives me a little bit of a wind down time to do whatever I want before I go to bed. Our first child my wife only threw up once from nausea, this time she did several times and seemed like the nausea phase lasted longer and hit her much quicker than the 1st time.
Bottom line though, in the end the 9 months of hell you may have to go through the end result is worth it all. I guess the main thing is for as frustrating as some of the ridiculously stupid things your wife might get worked up or emotional over that she usually doesn't is to just accept that her hormones are messed up and once she calms down will probably apologize for it. Adding more stress to the situation is not a good thing so do your best to keep a calm demeanor as well as you can - I know I am bad about sometimes getting mad when she freaks out on me over something really dumb but I try to stay calm if I can because stress is not a good thing with pregnancy and I don't want to be the one adding more to it. The more you can do around the house or for her will help keep her stress levels low, my wife is already a little OCD to begin with and it's even worse with pregnancy so whatever I can do that keeps her from thinking or worrying about it and over-exerting herself is a win-win for both of us.
Bottom line though, in the end the 9 months of hell you may have to go through the end result is worth it all. I guess the main thing is for as frustrating as some of the ridiculously stupid things your wife might get worked up or emotional over that she usually doesn't is to just accept that her hormones are messed up and once she calms down will probably apologize for it. Adding more stress to the situation is not a good thing so do your best to keep a calm demeanor as well as you can - I know I am bad about sometimes getting mad when she freaks out on me over something really dumb but I try to stay calm if I can because stress is not a good thing with pregnancy and I don't want to be the one adding more to it. The more you can do around the house or for her will help keep her stress levels low, my wife is already a little OCD to begin with and it's even worse with pregnancy so whatever I can do that keeps her from thinking or worrying about it and over-exerting herself is a win-win for both of us.
See that's where she went wrong, craving something healthy for the child and all just makes you puke.
Needed Sour Patch Kids and strawberry pop.
I really only puked much the first time, but it was severe. Actually pulled off on the shoulder on Highway 141 to do it.
We pulled off the road multiple times and that was just with me driving. I know that she did it driving several other times. Not cool.
My wife can't do pills so we found the gummy type. No iron, but taste like candy. She told me . . .
