Living with a pregnant wife

77GreenMachine

77GreenMachine

Phillip Talton
Joined
Mar 30, 2010
Location
Trinity, NC
Lets hear it. The pregnant wife stories....
Cause my wife is six months along with our baby boy, and she is nuttier than squirrel doo doo sometimes and I can't say/do anything right!
Its actually become comical in some ways. I know I'm not the only one who's dealt with a crazy pregnant woman.
 
I'm in the same boat guys, got a little man due the beginning of November. It's starting to get real. Guess this is what happens when she brings champaign home on Valentine's.
"Come on" she says "bubble baths are fun" she said. Six months latter your going to " Bradly Method" classes every Tuesday night and finishing all the projects around the house that you planned on taking 10 years to do.
 
My favorite quote was.. " no one ever gets pregnant when they first start trying". Two weeks latter I was out at Wally World buying a dozen more test cause she didn't trust the first 12.
 
We are in it 100%. But 7 months ago I would have never guessed I'd be where I am now.
 
Congratulations to all y'all!

Go ahead and vent/laugh, just remember you're the not the one hosting a parasitic organism!

I was told that I became "weird as shit" around 8 months, but that it only lasted a week or so. Must not have been so bad, because we've done that three times over. :lol:
 
My wife ate more cheeseburgers with grilled onions than I've ever thought was humanly possible when she was preggers. And became addicted to Netflix during the last 4 months.

Cheeseburgers and movies ftw!
 
I choose this story to tell because it's funny.

Brooke was about 6 or 7 months in..I'd say around October. We were invited to a buddies chicken stew,as the weather was just turning cool, and chicken stews become common around here at that time.
Brooke had never heard of, been to,or tasted chicken stew. One bowl turned into 5 bowls..I mean, she just couldn't get enough. She loved it. She loved it so much that she asked the host's wife for a Tupperware bowl so she could take some home. (I was kind of embarrassed at this point) Well anyways, the woman was more than understanding and hooked Brooke up with a big bowl to go.

Here is where it gets even crazier. Ok,so I mention earlier that chicken stews were common at that time of year. And Brooke was now absolutely addicted to this stuff. She would crave chicken stew all day everyday. So we attended 5 or 6 different stews in the next couple weeks. ( I know alot of contractors that have yearly stews and invite everybody as a party and tax write off) Brooke was bringing her own take out bowls by then..she was becoming a pro.
It only became a real problem when we were riding in the car...I can think of at least 4 times that we'd see alot of cars at someone's house and she would want to check it out to see if they were having chicken stew! 2 of those times..they were in fact chicken stews. Sure we hadn't been invited, but in this small town, you always find someone else you know there and can then easily blend in as if you were invited. I dubbed my wife the chicken stew crashing nazi.

Looking back ,it's quite comical to me..but then...Damn she drove me nuts.
 
Glad to say I cant relate.My wife had a super good pregnancy,no morning sickness,no mood swings,no weird cravings,nothing.She even worked the day before they induced her.The only thing she complained about was bein hot.He was born in Sept so she carried him most of the summer.
 
My wife was fairly normal with both of my boys, but my first son she had this funny moment when we didn't even realize she was pregnant.

I had a softball game and we were going to grab some dinner on the way. I was getting my uniform on and she kept asking me where we were going to eat. Finally she blew up and yelled "WHY AREN'T YOU MORE CONCERNED ABOUT WHERE WE ARE GOING TO EAT!" Now, those of you who know my wife can attest to the fact that she is really laid back and goes with the flow and I honestly can only think of maybe two arguments we've had in almost 20 years of being together. I was very confused by this outburst so I told her wherever she wants, she said Wendy's so I said fine and we headed out. By this point I was running a bit late for the game so I started to go through the drive through. She demanded to go inside because they had ketchup in there. I told her that I would get her some packets but she demanded the ketchup in the cups. I was livid, but pulled in and ran inside to get the food. Got our food, and ketchup, jumped in the car and hauled tail to the game. Got there late, had to ride the bench for the beginning of the game because of it. I was so pissed. My dad came to the game to see me play and he asked Kelly why I seemed upset and she said we had a little argument and it was ok. After the game he asked me what was up and I told him the story and he was like "is she sick? That's not like her at all." :lol:

Two weeks later she finds out she is pregnant and we immediately look at each other and started laughing about the ketchup because we knew what was up then too. We called and told my parents and my dad said "well that explains the ketchup!" :lol: :lol:

8 years later and when we are trying to decide on a place to eat one of us will inevitably jokingly yell "WHY AREN'T YOU MORE CONCERNED ABOUT WHERE WE ARE GOING TO EAT!"
 
They really like it when you tell them the reason they keep losing stuff is because it's a medical fact that your brain shrinks when you're pregnant.
Also, watch out for your own weight gain. I wasn't hungry but would eat something with her on all those snack runs. It was an easy 10 pounds.
 
77GreenMachine said:
Lets hear it. The pregnant wife stories....
Cause my wife is six months along with our baby boy, and she is nuttier than squirrel doo doo sometimes and I can't say/do anything right!
Its actually become comical in some ways. I know I'm not the only one who's dealt with a crazy pregnant woman.
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Look on the bright side..... it never gets better.
 
There are some funny stories in this thread. My wife was very sane through the whole thing. She worked right up until the end. She craved tomatoes, avocados, and cucumbers like mad though. It was weird. My boy loves avocados and will eat two of them in one sitting occasionally. We joke that it must have been due to her eating so many while pregnant with him.

We got married at the end of September, and due to being older when we met, decided we better start trying to have kids right away. We had a couple of vacations planned, so waited until late February to remove the goalie. During my wife's next cycle in March she got pregnant. I couldn't believe it happened so fast. I had to replan my ETO for the year, LOL.
 
josh m said:
finishing all the projects around the house that you planned on taking 10 years to do.
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This!

My wife's pregnancy was fairly easy (no real crazy stuff). Just make a list of every project you have planned on getting done and that will keep you busy and out of her hair. And use this line alot "Honey, we have to get this done so everything is perfect for the new baby".
 
can't tell you how many times my wife peed on the side of the road because there was NO WAITING! Open both doors on the side of the road and she'd squat down between them.

Cravings, you say Yes Ma'am!
Irritability, you say yes ma'am!
turn the AC down to 30*, you say Yes Ma'am!

Only real issue my wife had was that she became DAMN sick! to the point she couldn't even keep water down. became dehydrated and had to go the hospital twice to be re hydrated intravenously. No Meds would subside the nausea. That really sucked.
 
Yeah my wife craves twizlers, is always hot, can't sleep, to the point we sleep sepratly now, and goes from crazy to "give me a hug I love you" within miutes. These are fun times.
I'm sure it will be worth it.

She also has the added stress that our baby has infallicile and is going to require birth and immediate surgery at Brenners. Just visiting the specialist and the special ultra sounds has already cost us a few thousand.
 
The first pregnancy and now this one my wife can't get enough Mexican food and all those little projects around the house have suddenly become so important that they should have been done before we had the house and there's no way that it will all get done before the baby leaves for college. Very dramatic at my house lol.
 
My wife was sick w both kids. Never barfed, just felt like it all the time. If she has nausea, don't cook anything you like. Wife can't stand the smell of brussel sprouts (5 yrs later) or salmon and brisket (2 yrs later).

Other than that my wife who is typically very bright seemed dumb as a box of rocks. She claimed the baby ate her brain.
 
My wife has always been crazy, and I never do anything right, so nothing changed there. We had 4 years to get ready because we ended up having to do IVF (talk about $$$$). First round ended with a miscarriage about 7 weeks in. She had some cheeseburger cravings, but nothing crazy. Second one was pretty normal except her appetite. Shes very thin, and I'm basically not, but she was often eating twice as much as me, and I eat pretty heavy. Also, she was hot all the time. She would complain about it and I would remind her that now she understands how I feel all the time: hot, hungry, and tired.
 
On another note, we had 4 years to get ready, which means I had 4 years to build the crib. Due date was late March 2015. The beatings commenced sometime around January 2015. At that point, I decided I should probably start designing it. Plan was to buy materials and build it to my design based on her input. BUT, instead of buying wood from Lowes, I foolishly decided to use a red oak I'd cut down a few years earlier. Cut up a chunk with the chainsaw, table sawed it, planed it, Gaston County kiln dried it, planed it again, test fit everything, sanded it, assembled it. Finished it with OVER a week to spare before the due date. I thought I did good...Wife was NOT impressed with how well I timed it. She still had to stain it and sew the burlap skirts. But we got it done a couple days before the due date...
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Wow that's amazing man. Looks great. Wives don't seem to appreciate anything when pregnant! Lol
 
For all those currently pregnant.

Consider this a PSA.

Please, please, please ask your doc a question. Ask if they do a "beta strep test" standard. And if not MAKE them do it. It's cheap.

I think it is pretty standard these days. But in 99-00 apparently it wasn't, at least not in Rock Hill, SC.

There is a version of strep bacteria known as Beta Strep. It only lives in female, human hosts. Its a pretty mysterious deal. Causes zero harm to healthy functioning adults, its just a parasite that floats along in the blood stream and does its thing. There is supposedly a less than 5% chance that a female carrier will pass it to her child during child birth. Add that onto somewhere between 10-25% of all women being carriers and the risk of transmission is pretty damn low. However if a child contracts it during the birth process it has a high 70% mortality rate. If the wife is a carrier simply scheduling the delivery and getting 4 hours of IV antibiotics in the system ELIMINATES the transmittal chance.

Apparently my wife is a carrier.
Apparently her OB/GYN didnt test because the risk of transmission is low and "the antibiotic sometimes makes the babies groggy and they can look drunk eyed in their baby pics"

My son (our oldest) contracted it. It almost wasnt caught. By the time it was caught we were doing spinal taps on a 1 day old and were at serious risk of losing him.

In the end we spent 10 days in the NICU. (Talk about expensive!!! Over $400k)
We were blessed the nurse assigned to my wife was 63 years old and a labor and delivery nurse her entire career. Just before going home she said "I hate to ask this but I just have a strange feeling about your son. Can I get your permission to prick his finger and run a couple blood tests?"...that bad feeling saved his life. He was over 60% septic when they tested him. Within 6 hours he would have been gone. We were about to leave and take him home and we lived over an hour from the nearest hospital. Today he is a happy healthy 14 year old with no ill effects. But it was a rough week. Emotionally I dont think you recover from that. I became a worrier that week and never quit, tbh.

On a lighter note, our son was right at 10lbs and over 24" long when he was born. There were 14 babies in the NICU when he was in there the there 13 were all "premies". Most weighing less than 3 lbs. We got to go in for 30 minute visits 4 times a day. The rest of the time it was staring through glass. We got the worst evil looks from the premie parents who I swear thought we were there just for fun or something.
 
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