(Week 9) Roller Coaster

Week 9? The week 9 that means we’re in to the 3rd month of the 9 month journey. The week that means we are only 3 more away from telling everyone else. Well this is going quicker than I thought!

My wife is really starting to get a bump now, and I really want to post pictures, but I can’t until at least 12 weeks. But I will try to describe it best I can… It’s a bump. That is pretty much all I can say about it, I imagine most people know what a bump looks like, but this is the best bump I’ve seen in my life. Because it’s MY bump. Not because I own my wife, but because the thing causing that bump, is part of me. That sounds so weird, but so cool. It’s part of me!

Reading up on the whole pregnancy thing has told me that about now I should be expecting some mood swings. They lied, these aren’t mood ‘swings’, they are more like mood rollercoasters. And you just cannot keep up. I’m not judging my wife, as I know it’s not something she is doing on purpose or something she really likes ether, but the extremes her moods go too are impressive.

Little things will really get to her, and so commuting in London is really ‘interesting’ for her at the moment. She deals with it well though, as best you can really. But being the man, you soon learn a lot of things are probably your fault. Even though she doesn’t say they are, you just get the feeling that it probably is in some way your fault. I guess that is just part of being a man with a woman, who is pregnant or not.

I am going to get so much abuse from the women I know about that last paragraph. But it is true.

Babies seem to have come up a lot this week, it’s getting pretty ridiculous. The woman who I sit next to at work is duein 3 weeks, the guy opposite is going to be a Dad in about 9 weeks and one of the other girls in the office is pregnant too. I guess now is the time to be pregnant?!  And so many of the conversations at work are about the babies and birthing plans and parenting etc. And I have to just keep my head down and not say a word. Which is really hard for me. In my head I respond by saying ‘Yeah my wife was talking about that’, but I know that I can’t, because nobody knows.

It’ll be weird when everyone else knows, it’ll be like finding out for the first time again, because all the excitement and buzz will be back. And it will be even more real then. So crazy!