The stress I passed through during my wife Pregnancy

in Motherhoodlast year

Having a pregnant wife in the house is so adorable, but it's also stressful.
when a woman is pregnant though she's the carrier of the pregnancy physically but spiritually and psycologically the man is the one carrying the pregnancy. some women looks beautiful on pregnancy while some looks ugly. According to some old women they said that any pregnant woman looking beautiful is going to give birth to a baby girl while those that looks ugly and unkept during pregnancy will give birth to baby boy and that is exactly how it is.

Most pregnant women can eat a lot or will I say all pregnant women. You'll see a pregnant woman that have food in the house she will wants to eat fruit, when you get the fruit for her she'll say that she doesn't want to eat the fruit again which will get the husband angry.

In my own case, when my wife was pregnant, she always look unkept like very irritating, her tommy was very big and her sense of smell was very high. She can perceive what any other person in the house cannot perceive, you cannot use deodorant or perfume in the house, as a matter of fact we stopped using deodorant in the house because once she perceive the fragrance she'll start vomiting and she'll vomit everything she ate that day.

Sometimes when there's cold she'll be feeling heat and sweating heavily, and she was so demanding during the pregnancy period, I will be at work my wife will call me to buy fruits for her, I will buy the fruit when I reach home and present the fruit to her, she will frown her face and I will ask what the problem is she'll say she doesn't need the fruit anymore that she wants to eat matching ground and I will go out again and start looking for where to buy the matching ground. (Matching ground is chicken legs).

The most annoying part of it is she will tell me that it is what the baby want. Sometimes I will be busy at work she'll call me and tell me that the baby is kicking that the baby wants me to come back home and stay with them, ah! I should leave work and come home during work hour it wasn't funny at all.

One setting night around 2:am that I was in a very deep sleep my pregnant wife woke me up that she wants to tell me something I asked if the thing cannot wait till morning and she said no. I woke up to listen to what she wants to say, imagine what she said, that she wants to eat Isi ewu ( that is goat head ) before I could say anything, she has already started shouting that I shouldn't complain, am I not the one that made her pregnant? that it is what the baby wants to eat. I told her that if she can't wait till morning she should die that I will bury her.

Honestly it was not an easy experience, my wife was the one pregnant but I was the one carrying the pregnancy because mentally, physically, spiritually and psycologically I was affected, you can imagine coming back from work after a stressful day to rest and you will start facing your pregnant wife's demand.

During delivery day my mind was not at rest from 6:am when the labour start till 11:am when she finally gave birth and it was a baby boy.

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When I had my first daughter and my partner was pregnant, I was very sleepy.

Congratulations on your bundle of joy, see it was worth the stress eventually, and don't blame her too much, I am sure the discomfort made her react that way.

Yes I understood everything that it wasn't her fault.

I congratulate you for being such a supportive father, pregnancy can really get difficult