Pregnancy Thread

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opiate82_sl said:
My wife did the same thing, and I reacted pretty much the same way. Best I could manage to do to avoid my wife freaking out is every night at bedtime I would spend some time feeling her stomach and talking to the baby. Sometimes it was more for my wife's sake than anything but that seemed to be enough to pull me out of "you don't care!" territory.
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Pulled the same tricks. Even if I wasn't going to sleep at the same time, I would spend a few minutes in bed with the wife at bedtime, and talk to the baby, and feel her tummy. Seemed to work out, rather than straight not caring.
 
Noodleface

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Joeboo that's the thing. I spend a LOT of time with her during the week, probably more than most men do with their wives. When i sit down to play wow for 30 minutes its not that I don't care, I just want to relax a little. Its not like I am slamming around on games all day.

Edit: Doctor said my wife is really small for how far along she is. Not liking this news. Gotta go back next week for like our 8th ultrasound. About to pull the plug on my wife working.
 
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Noodlemod_sl said:
Last night I was running a dungeon group and she didn't understand why I couldn't immediately drop the computer and run over and hold my hand there for 2 minutes.

Just venting I guess.
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Hahahahahahahahahaha, oh man. Just wait.
 
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Your wife has a fucking watermelon growing inside her. I know it sucks to deal with the hormones and the needs and that shit, but at least you don't have to push a bowling ball out your dick hole, or deal with the discomfort of it all for 9 months.

I'm not of the "pregnant women can do no wrong" camp, so don't think that's what I'm saying. If she's expressing a particular need that involves you putting your hand on her stomach for a couple minutes a few times a week, I don't think that seems like too much work to keep her happy and make her feel like you're involved in this whole uncomfortable, rotten process.

That said, it fucking sucks to deal with a pregnant partner. There's a lot of setting aside of your own desires for that time, and then you're rewarded with a baby to deal with.

However, in the long run, I really do love my kids and my wife, and I would do it again. You're just starting, I'm 14 years into the process. It gets better, man. Not necessarily easier, but the challenges change, and the rewards grow. Keep working to stay positive, man. That's important.
 
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So we are scheduled for a C-section tomorrow morning at 7 am for our second child. Sunday was the due date and the Doc thinks the fluid is a little small and doesn't want to wait any longer My wife had some problems with labor with our son and had to have an emergency one last time anyway. She is a little bummed that it wont work but I just find the whole process really weird. We are going to go get scrubbed up, cut her out and then i have another child YAY!? That being said I do prefer this over the 14 hours of labor and then emergency one like last time.

With both of my wife's pregnancies I found that if i tried to be really sweet and understanding she would just get harder and harder to deal with. Then i would snap and tell her she needs to dial it down a bit. She agreed that she could get a little bitchy if i were being to understanding. Fucking women..
 
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Noodlemod_sl said:
My wife is annoying me with the baby moving. Everytime it moves she goes "come here, it's moving"

Ok, it was cool the first few times I felt a hand/foot move across the stomach, but now it's just like "ok"

She started getting bitchy because I act like I don't care (which, to be honest, I really don't) and don't jump over to feel it 3 times a night. Last night I was running a dungeon group and she didn't understand why I couldn't immediately drop the computer and run over and hold my hand there for 2 minutes.

Just venting I guess.
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Welcome to the next two years.
 
Noodleface

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Oh I know man. And it wasn't so much a complaint or misunderstanding on my part, more of a vent.

Like, yes, I am fully vested in our future child and love spending time with you, the dog, and eventually the kid. But I don't need to rush over 14 times a day (Yes, a day) to touch your stomach and feel it. I still do it, because it makes her happy, it was just that one night she got really pissed at me.
 
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My wife is super understanding of how important I am on the internet and pretty much lets me run amock. But I compensate by spending a lot of time with her and letting her go out whenever she wants while I watch Jimjim.
 
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CalhoonJugganaut_sl said:
My wife can't take a shit by her lonesome and has to resort to taking enemas. Does she just need to eat different foods or what? What I saw today cannot be unseen. I will not pronounce enema corrrectly to spite her, and I think it is backfiring...in a bad way.
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Does she take +iron pills or something like that? That stuff clogs you up real good in addition to the already worse situation during pregnancy, and pregnant women often get +iron prescribed.
 
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Just had a 33 weeks ultrasound because my wife is measuring small and they wanted to check things out. Everything measured 33 weeks except the head which was almost 2 weeks behind. The sonographer said we shouldnt worry which of course has sent my wife into a blind panic. I of course read about microcelaphy and stuff, but I figured that stuff would show up way earlier. Her family all has small heads, so I tried to use that to calm her down to no avail.

She's got an appointment Monday and really hoping the doctor gives her the OK, and perhaps tells her she can't work or exercise anymore. My wife is so worried about getting fat and I feel like she's going overboard. Don't know what to do aside from tying her to a bed and force feeding food and shit.

Frustrating to say the least.
 
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When my wife was prego with our oldest (now 5.5) we had a similar experience. The Tech made a comment that something about our kids hands and feet did not look normal, possible extra digits. It was one of those times in my life were I felt like I said the prefect thing to my wife "Honey everything will be okay, if this is the greatest injustice he endures in his life then he will live an amazing life."

My son was born with polydactyly and syndactyly (12 fingers, 12 toes and webbing). It ended up being minor in the scheme of things but we did have to travel to Los Angeles for surgery because Doctors in Vegas saw cases like this maybe 2-5 times a year where as in Los Angeles our Doctor performed this surgery 5 times in a week.

Tell your wife to look at the bright side, small head means easier child birth. Assuming she was okay with jokes, if you think it will make her cry then don't say it. I hope it all turns out okay bud, just remember those numbers the techs gave you are averages and not every is the same in or out of the womb.
 
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Oblio_sl said:
just remember those numbers the techs gave you are averages and not every is the same in or out of the womb.
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This, x100

When our kid was due, my wife's doc was away on holiday. Over here, once you hit the calculated due date and nothing happens, you go to your doc every day to check if the kid is healthy. After a while (I think 7-10 days) they take action usually.

So anyway the kid was due on july 26th in 2012, the doc was away, so the next best thing is the hospital where you're going to end up giving birth anyway. We go in, explain everything, just a regular checkup yadda yadda, doc goes "alright I'll examine you real quick". After looking at the ultrasound a bit he asks if we're really sure that today is the due date, because the kid is so small it might as well be 34 or 36 weeks along, not 40.

Had a c-section two days later because the fluid level wasn't so optimal and labor didn't happen. Every contraction made the kid's heartbeat slow down for the duration of it, so we didn't want to take any risks.

Anyway, our kid was really tiny. Well developed, "finished product", all healthy, but just tiny. 2525 grams, where other kids pop out at 3500++ sometimes. Averages are just that, averages.
 
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My kid's giant head is the reason we had to get a caesarian after some 50 hours of labor. I can't help but think if it was a few hundred years ago he would've tyrion'd my wife.
 
Noodleface

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That's actually my biggest fear right now. Its probably unfounded and irrational but I keep thinking about things that could go wrong.
 
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Looks like we're heading for csec. Kid is Frank Breech which is apparently the worst breech to try and reposition a baby from.
Wife of course wants a natural labor and I just don't care how he comes out as long as they're both alive and healthy.
 
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