Non-alcoholic beer:
Boobs:
Feeling woozy at various place:
Puking:
"Talking about the thing I'm not talking about"
"Trying to figure out what to do about the fact that all I want to do is nest."
We have of course been thinking about what all of this means to us and our future, and in my case I like to compensate for the unknown by reading lots of books and researching a lot of random, conflicting, statistics on the internet. We've taken on pseudonyms and have started a maybe too verbose report of our spring into parenthood here:
Zero to baby (rss feed) (livejournal syndicated feed so entries show up on your LJ friends page)
Of course, this may all be of no interest to those who are not thinking about and/or procreating anytime in the near future, and I apologize in advance for putting a picture of a baby up as my profile picture on Facebook, diluting my LJ, Flickr, and Twitter streams with random nonsense about the brain development of little humans, pseudo-science, and controversial parenting techniques, and generally falling off the social wagon for a while. You have been warned and might as well unfriend me now if this unnerves you. Cause I'm totally into this new chapter of adventure, and it's gonna be awesome.
second - i'm in a perpetual state of vicariously living through the lives of others who are having their first children. so i look forward to reading, especially since you are so meticulous in your documentation.
Well, if you have any links to good narratives that you've followed in the past, I'd love to hear about them.
there are three to four other friends who have had children in the last year (like K's friend
Yeah, I've been looking for male-perspective accounts and have only found one or two. I gotta represent for the silent (on the topic of pregnancy and parenthood) gender. :)
Though you've probably already done this, googling "expectant father blogs" nets a few results, though a cursory glance - some of them don't seem to be highly personal.
Though it seems like forums can be hit or miss with the content, have you already seen places like this: http://www.brandnewdad.com/
How many books have you already read?
that sounds like a very intriguing book. now i just need to work on the whole pregnancy issue so i can have an instigating excuse to read the book.
yay!
Congrats to you both!
I was actually wondering last week if KA was pregnant...maybe it was the boobs pic? Or there must be some weird maternal recognition thing going on. So if she's 12 weeks, does that mean that she's due in mid-May-ish?! How exciting!
I have 4 weeks left...pregnancy is so phenomenal. Hope you guys are enjoying the hell out of it!!!!
Congratulations and best wishes to both of you!
And the LJ mostly just fell by the wayside -- got too busy with other things, fell into new communities. Occasionally, lately, I keep thinking I might take it up again. We'll see. :)