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Let me start by saying, you always treat your wife/spouse/domestic partner or any other lady in your life, like a queen. Not just because she is carrying your baby, but because that’s just basic human decency. Appreciate her beauty, be thankful they choose you when they could’ve picked any Tom, Harry or a Dick(head) – now you don’t go end up becoming the douche, be the best person you can be irrespective of whether other person deserves your best or not. In fact, you and I are nobody to decide what someone else deserves and doesn’t. All of us should just try to be the best person we can be and the world will be a happier place.

Let me also say, in the process of treating someone like a queen, I don’t imply that you should do it even if you’re loosing your own identity and respect in the process. To the contrary in fact! Trust me it doesn’t take a whole lot of effort to treat another person with dignity and respect.

Now that we have this out of our way. The mother of your baby is a queen in every sense and you will treat her no less.

A bunch of stuff that I have been queuing up.

• Stuff I have been doing that I was otherwise just lazy to do
• Nausea, tiredness, sleep and cravings
• Outside influences
• Baby Names & Baby Shower
• Miscellaneous

Stuff I have been doing that I was otherwise just lazy to do

So, lot’s of stuff. Other than the usual household chores – and man are there chores? – holy son of a gun!

After our first visit to the doctor where we just confirmed the home pregnancy test result, my wife started experiencing the usual symptoms of a new mother to be – Nausea, general tiredness, wanting to sleep longer.. etc.. Although, knowing my wife, I am not entirely sold on the fact that the last symptom there is really one related to pregnancy – Boy, am I sleeping on the couch, the day she reads this :O . In any case, more about all of these later.

For now, it’s just a fact that I have been doing more around the house than I used to. I am cooking dinners and lunches more frequently that I used to. I have been cleaning up the house more frequently than I used to. Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying all this to brag, I like most guys, used to put these off as much as I could because at the end of the day, I knew my wife has OCD when it comes to household chores – she wants it done when she wants it done and I know if I can put it off long enough, she will just do it herself instead of waiting for me to do it. Evil, I know. I am guilty as charged. Of course, there are times when I know I can no longer procrastinate hoping she will do it, those times, I have the fire lit up my bum my friend and I zip through the chores and then some to get brownie points that could (not guaranteed) come in handy on a rainy day. But, the procrastinating was more often than the fire, you know!

But, from the time we have found out about the pregnancy, I am not able to bring myself to procrastinate chores. I am just on it the moment I see it – I have wiped the kitchen counter and the stove immediately after cooking more times in the last couple of months than my entire life. That should give you a sense. I am not sure if all dads to be experience this or not, but I am telling you I haven’t been able to put off chores.

Now, I have become no saint. I still give my wife the stink eye when she asks for the salt and pepper shaker or the pickle jar after I have set the food in front of her and sit down myself to eat – the “couldn’t you have asked for that before I sat down” look, but I get up just as instantaneously as the stink eye make the appearance to get her what she asked for. It’s like my mind and my body are being controlled by two different people and eventually the mind wins and body just does as instructed. I am not complaining and neither is my wife. But I am confused about how I am able to do all this.

Just realizing that this post is too long for one post, I am breaking this up into multiple posts, also because I am tired of typing all this!