(Week 17) It’ll be perfect

In just under a month we should (hopefully) know whether we will be having a boy or a girl, and I cannot wait! I just want to know! I want to get myself ready to be the overprotective Dad to my little girl, or to be the football coach to my little boy. Either way I’ll be more than happy, but I just want to know. I think my mother-in-law put it best when she said ‘If it’s a boy or a girl, it’s what you always wanted’. And I think that’s about right, whether I’m told it’s a boy or a girl, it’ll be perfect.

Lara’s back is still giving her problems, some days it seems to get better, but then the next it’ll be worse than normal. It’s really frustrating for her, but I think it’s just going to be one of those things she’ll have for the whole pregnancy.

She’s also been getting pains in the muscles on her stomach, which she has been describing as growing pains, which kind of makes sense when you think that the baby is half way through doubling in size over a 3 week period – crazy! Grow baby grow!!

Something I’ve noticed about being the man in this whole thing, is that people don’t seem to ask how your feeling. Not everyone, but most people. Now I know Lara is going through a hell of a lot more than me, and it is obviously way more important that she’s ok. But what I mean is people seem to think it’s a 1 person thing, but us guys go through it too, after all we are the ones who have to deal with the mood swings, and they are intense! I just mean that, people seem to forget about the mental side of it, and how we’re dealing with that. They all ask Lara how she is feeling, as in how is the bump, but nobody seems to want to know about how I’m feeling about coming a Dad.

It doesn’t really bother me that much, as i’m pretty sure I’ve never thought too much about how the man is feeling when his partner is expecting. I guess I just don’t want to get left out, and I want people to know that I am involved.

P.S. Baby is now the size of a Turnip… cute