The Proud Father

Let me tell you a little bit about my husband, Mikey. He has one straight head on his shoulders! You can definitely give his Mom (& Grandma) the credit for raising such a level headed, determined child. I've never in my life been attracted to guys like Mikey, you know, the ones who actually know what they're doing in life. Most of you know where I'm coming from. There was just something different about this one, and he proves that more and more every day. I wasn't sure how he was going to react to the pregnancy, I knew he'd be supportive, but I didn't think he would be THIS supportive.

MY SYMPTOMS
In the first weeks everyone knows the symptoms, tired, cranky, gassy, tired, did I say tired? So when the laziness hit me he was, and still is, down with just staying home with me. Sometimes I just want to lay around and do nothing, and you know what? He cooks, cleans up and cuddles with me on the couch. Sounds like a winner to me! So now the gassy part. Every guy dreams of a girl who doesn't burp, fart, or poop. I was able to hide all of this for the first 3 years or so but then it all slowly came out. And when that test showed positive, I knew why I had been so gassy, and it only got worse! Do you know what his response was? Its OK baby, you're pregnant. Who is this man? He has got to be the most perfect guy ever, and he is MY husband, MINE! How lucky of me :)

HIS SYMPTOMS
We have some friends, Nick and Jessica, who moved to Lubbock about a year ago, they have a 10 month old, Ana, so she sent me some of her favorite pregnancy books, one of them being "The Expectant Father" I didn't actually think he'd read it but the second we got it I couldn't pull him away. He reads it religiously every night and if I don't read my books he says "you're not going to read your books?" so he reads his to me instead (when I'd rather be sleeping) He's just so excited. He loves to tell me all of the things that his book says, even though its the same as mine, but I would never break his heart and tell him. He likes to tell me that I need to be eating protein, like, eggs, peanut butter etc.  and that up to 90% of men get some type of pregnancy symptom. Which brings me to the next story...the butter. Long story short, he already has the pregnancy brain. He put the butter in the freezer, when he discovered it, we laughed for a few days and it died down. THEN, about a week later, he said "did you put the jelly in the freezer?" Um no, I didn't use the jelly last, you did. So not only did he put the butter in the freezer he put the jelly in the freezer too, I know I didn't do it. And then there are the pregnancy dreams, he has those too. The first dream was that someone hurt our dog, Billet, so he beat them to death, literally, they died in his dreams, YIKES.
The other night I woke up with the worst neck pain, and about that time I heard "I'm so sorry baby" I said, "I don't even know what happened, but my neck hurts" He was apparently having a bad dream that I was texting and driving and when I went off the road he did the Mommy arm to save me, only he really did the Mommy arm in his sleep and karate chopped me in the neck! OUCH!

I think it all boils down to this is a very protective time for him because after all, he is the proud father of the child in my tummy.