Most men will agree that when your partner becomes pregnant, it’s a wonderful and exciting time, but also a scary thing to deal with. While we can help with the most basic things like shopping for belly bands and other maternitywear if she’s too ill with morning sickness, it’s much harder to control our feelings.
When my wife was pregnant with her second baby, I was scared, happy, joyfull, and worried all at once. When all those feelings and emotions happen at once it’s definately a wierd feeling. By the time you start to get comfortable with the idea of pregnancy it will be time for the baby to come and labor to start which is a whole new set of feelings and emotions. Do you do this, call that, what does the baby want.
Everybody will say that their partner has emotional issues while being pregnant, not realizing that their partner might see them as the same. A major side effect that I noticed during my partner’s pregnancy was a food craving. I did not know that it was possible that I could get a craving for food I did not like or ever ate. My partner said it was completely normal and common for me to get “her” food cravings. Jalopeno pizza became an everyday, or every other day process for nine months of my life. After my daughter was born I have not eaten Jalepeno pizza since! I can’t stand the thought of it nor the taste. Now I do not have any medical explanation or any way to tell you why this happened, but it sure did. Onto the feelings and emotions that I experienced. My wife was the calmest person I knew during this time. I still to this day do not understand how she could have been in a situation like this. Scared was a major one for me. What happens if you don’t know what the baby wants and needs. After a few weeks of this you will start to calm down, I did. It has been 5 years now and I seem to remember the “side effects” of a pregnancy that your partner is having quite clearly.