Here are the plus sides to being pregnant:
Downsides to being pregnant:
All in all I've been pretty lucky with my pregnancy journey so far (I have a friend who has been puking since the day she found out - and was hospitalised and on a drip for four days because of it!) but still, my symptoms and those of many other women in similar conditions pale into insignificance compared to the woes currently suffered by Ben.
Here are some examples of his issues
Yet while on the one hand he's trying to garner sympathy for his plight, there's another part of him in denial it's even happening at all. So determined is he that life will not change once we've had the baby, that he's already planned his list of 'fun stuff' that will prove he's not a 'baby bore'.
So far he's decided to:
Go on a stag do in Greece 10 days before I'm due to give birth
Go to a wedding three days after said birth is meant to happen
Book a party house for New Year - for him, me and a load of friends (oh and the baby I guess)
Go skiing
Go to the Burning Man festival
Then there's the discussion about having to buy a new car. We have a mini with a boot the size of a pea so we obviously need to change it. So he's currently looking at two door sports cars.
Oh and we've started to kit out the nursery. But so far all he's ordered is a sofa bed for people to stay on (who the hell will want to sleep in a room with our baby I don't know) and it's been covered in blue velvet. Really-not-at-all-baby-sick-proof blue luxury velvet.