Five Ways to Make Your Pregnant Wife Happy
Two months into our pregnancy adventure, I believe that I’ve found the key to happiness. At least in the first trimester.
Here’s the five ways to keep your pregnant wife happy.
5. Keep your running shoes by the bed. – I used to think that the way television portrayed pregnant women was a dramatically stereotypical depiction of a difficult physical time. Always hungry, always irritable, always off the hook is the way it seemed on sitcoms and in movies.
The irritable part is not true (so far), but the hunger? Oh, that’s real, buddy.
Ask your wife occasionally what she may be in the mood to eat, because she’ll always be in the mood. Suggest healthy things that she may like and find to be a staple of her pregnancy diet. And it helps if the foods you name are in close proximity, and not from the restaurant you went to for your anniversary last year that was 44 miles away.
4. Get handy with a broom and a mop. – Keep her mind clear by keeping the house clear. It will go a long way in making her feel appreciated, and in alleviating her concern about the house going to hell while she attempts to get every hour of sleep she can.
3. Relinquish the Remote. - This is a task I haven’t quite mastered. Once March Madness is over, I should be much more proficient in allowing my wife the freedom to surf.
2. You’re pregnant? Really? - Make her feel like she’s not even pregnant. Keep the conversation on the excitement and anticipation as minimal as she wants it, because you’re not the one making the physical sacrifice.
1. Ask no questions, make no requests. – What could you possibly be looking for that requires the woman carrying your child to do more than whatever she feels like doing at the time? Cater to her, as she is offering herself and her body for the privilege of you being a father.
