[sehbub]

So instead of another vent about how clueless our partners are while we're pregnant, how 'bout some of the sweet things they do to take care of us/the kids/the house during the pregnancy?

I'll go first:

Brad stays up until midnight with Samantha every night so that I can go to bed at 9 or 10 and hopefully get 4-6 straight hours of sleep before she wakes up again.

Saturday I went to a meeting and he stayed home with Sam and reorganized our entire living room. He also did the dishes and scrubbed the counters.

On Saturday and Sunday mornings, he wakes up with Sam at 6 and lets me sleep in. In exchange, he gets to nap later in the day.

He kisses me first as soon as he walks in the door from work, no matter how many little girls are clamoring for his attention. "Mama first."

If the refrigerator needs to be cleaned out, he does it because he knows how weak my pregnancy stomach is. Same reason he takes out the trash and washes the dog. One week outside and that dog reeks to high heaven.

Most of these aren't exclusive of pregnancy. What can I say? Marrying an older man spoiled me.

 

[Gray's Mommy]

DH rubs pregnant belly oil on my stomach when he is home & helps with DS's bath on those nights also. He works a rotating deep night shift.

He takes out the trash & does the kitty litter

When school starts tomorrow, he will walk our DS to school every morning...and get him ready since I have to be at my school at 8 am.

 

[timneh_mom]

My DH takes care of our non sleeping DS at night, pretty much every night. We haven't slept in the same bed now for quite a while, but we're hoping someday DS will accept sleeping in his crib.

He is a horribly restless sleeper and bounces around in his sleep so much that he keeps anyone in the same bed with him awake. He really needs to sleep alone so that the rest of us can get sleep but he refuses. So we just keep plugging away, hoping that maybe when his molars come in the rest of the way, it will get better.

Then again, we've been waiting for it to get better all his life and it never really has.

 

[7kiddosmom]

hmmmm lets see dh called me a few minutes ago just to say he loves me. But I think he had another motive, he asked "what's for dinner".

 

[HeatherKae]

He.... uhhhhh... hold on... I'm sure something will come to me. He... he is.... hmmmm... think, think, think....

Oh! I got it!

He's got good sperm!

 

[mom2mimi]

My dh cooks every night he is off work (he is the chef after all!), takes the kids on errands and fun jaunts to the dump just to give me a break, assumes the morning oatmeal ritual with our almost two year old. That's a big one since the ritual involves said child throwing fits and whining "no!" for at least 20 minutes before he will eat for some odd reason. There's a lot more too, I have a pretty good dh if I say so myself!

 

[heabrook]

My dh makes me breakfast, gives me massages (especially foot massages because that is my fav), carries stuff so I don't have to (well, he did that pre-preg too), and is just always very loving and sweet

 

[sehbub]

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Originally Posted by HeatherKae He.... uhhhhh... hold on... I'm sure something will come to me. He... he is.... hmmmm... think, think, think.... Oh! I got it! He's got good sperm!

You're too funny! Come on, there's got to be something else!

Like right now, Brad is on his way to Rita's to get me a mango gelati.

Come on...you gotta have something...right?

 

[mamabear&babybear]

All I have right now is that dh calls every night from Michigan and he does, patiently, listen to all my pregnancy woes.

 

[Jude Rose]

DH has really been taking this whole pregnancy to the next level. He's been doing stuff around the house that used to never occur to him, I've been finding less reasons to nag at him for leaving stuff out. He's been a champ with the cat pan and the other day he asked me to make a list cuz he wanted to get some groceries!!! Who is this man?

:

I've been really trying to pump him up though and I think that helps. I tell him how great it was that he...fill in the blank..and how much I appreciated it. He really feeds off of that kind of reinforcement.
Also, he said that seeing me lay around and not be able to accomplish the simplest tasks (a few weeks ago-I'm better now) really threw him for a loop. I guess he was used to the old superwoman and isn't taking her for granted anymore.

I still think my thing I'm most grateful for is that he listens to my neverending litany of symptoms.

 

[sehbub]

I will say, that is one thing Brad is not good with. He hates medical issues, either related to him or otherwise. He just doesn't want to hear that someone he cares about is in pain/sick/uncomfortable. Besides, as he said, "I can't really support you, because I have no basis for comparison. Also, it kinda freaks me out that you're so sick and exhausted...are you sure this is normal?"

It's actually kinda cute. "Baby, please call one of your girlfriends. I just don't know what to say!"

 

[anabellee]

dh lets me sleep in on the weekends. he also gets up with ds if he wakes at night. his theory is, i woke up several times a night for 9 months while ds bf and now it's his turn to get up with him. besides, soon i'll have the new babe to get up with and dh will get to sleep again

 

[kaybee]

I want to chime in, too. My dh is great! Even before the pregnancy he did his share of cooking, cleaning, groceries, etc., but now he's also taken over mowing, nasty scrubbing cleaning, and finishing up painting the house which we had started when I got pregnant.

The only problem is that he's off canoeing for a week right now. We miss having him around!

 

[appleseed]

I couldn't complain about my husband one BIT. He has done ALL the cleaning, ALL the cooking, and a good chunk of the child care when he's home since I've been pregnant, all while working 50ish hours every week. I've been super-sick and he's been AWESOME. As I get better I'm taking over the chores again (and it's nice, because I like things done MY WAY!) but I appreciate what he's done SO much.

 

[~PurityLake~]

Quote:

Originally Posted by HeatherKae He.... uhhhhh... hold on... I'm sure something will come to me. He... he is.... hmmmm... think, think, think.... Oh! I got it! He's got good sperm!

 

[arlecchina]

I've been away from home pretty much since we found out I was pregnant. so I cant brag much yet. we talk a great deal about our pregnancy symptoms (he has sympathy pregnancy

) and how we're going to labour, etc (as we're UC)

 

[TR's_mummy]

My DH stopped at the store to get the special pads for bladder leakage for me.

He used to highlight my hair before I was pregnant. (He did tell me never to tell anyone....but it's not like you guys know him!)

He does a lot of stuff around the house, too. He was used to taking care of himself before we were married!

 

[mamaglee]

Quote:

Originally Posted by polkadotjonas I couldn't complain about my husband one BIT. He has done ALL the cleaning, ALL the cooking, and a good chunk of the child care when he's home since I've been pregnant, all while working 50ish hours every week. I've been super-sick and he's been AWESOME. As I get better I'm taking over the chores again (and it's nice, because I like things done MY WAY!) but I appreciate what he's done SO much.

I could have written this exact post!

 

[appleseed]

Quote:

Originally Posted by mamaglee I could have written this exact post!

I'm glad I'm not the only one that lucky!

 

[earthkid]

my dh is too cool. He is always making sure that I "take time out of my day to prop my feet up"! His mama told him that was something that I MUST do everyday...boy, I love his mom.