I'm going to be a father... :-)

The stork dropped a nuke...

Congratulations!!

I'm 17, but I honestly can't wait to raise a kid. It's very appealing to me and it may be the one thing in mature adult life that I am genuinely looking forward to.

Super happy for you, man! <3

@dpad_5678 You...haven't worked in retail, have you?

Hello.

How are you three ?
Everything ok with mother and your growing offspring and of course also with "daddy" ?

I wish you all three (or maybe more ?? ) a nice "pregnancy time".
This is a wonderful,sometimes very exciting and also not so easy time for you all.But an experience you will never forget.
And a time if great anticipation.

Enjoy it and have furthermore a nice and health time of your life(s).

I wish you all the best.
Thank you.

Welp you're boned.

Congratulations, buddy - gonna be one smart kid. Hope everything goes well.

Thanks for the congratulations once again. :-)

I wish I could say that everything went well, but that wouldn't be entirely true. It's going... Perhaps it's best to describe it as 'average'. It could be worse and doctors insist that everything is within the expected range of how a pregnancy can progress, but that's hardly good news. Truth is that she's often sick and has to throw up a lot (not daily anymore, but still about every two or three days). She's very conscious on what she eats (even compared to other pregnant women), but it can still happen. The strange result is that she lost nearly 10 kg since the start of the pregnancy about 4 months ago. She calls it sarcastically 'the best diet she has ever had', which is about the only positive part (again : she doesn't try this... It's just that eating more means it comes back out again).

It's also bad timing in that we're still in full swing house renovations. So we're in survival modus right now. But it'll be okay. That's something to hold on to.

Hello.

Oh. That is not necessarily the "feedback" I expected ... I am very sorry for you.
I wish you all the best, all the best for the remaining pregnancy time, so that everything really goes smoothly and also your wife / girlfriend can grow a little bit of substance again. It would certainly not give her and your baby anything bad. Furthermore, I hope for you that the "renovation phase" goes well on the stage and you take nothing really "negative" in your further life as a family.
I wish you together with your "growing" Family now many Love and good health continues for you.

Congratulations but to be honest with you.. Once the baby comes, mums do more, dads do less around the house. That's disgusting and sad! Dads do not experience the same instant bonding with babies as mums do. Like changing diapers and feeding.

Most fathers just wants to have sex with women then leave them to do more for the babies. That's sick. My two brothers in law does nothing to the babies but hanging out with guys, drinking, and laughed. I will never understand fathers at all! Sighing.

Congratulations that's fantastic news. I'm sure it's going to be a tough road ahead but I wish you the best. I pray your baby grows up healthy and strong.

My sister turned out to be autistic, and me and my family had no idea until she was a toddler. She was born with half her brain shrunken, to put it simply. It's hard to tell whether your child has a problem or not when they're only toddlers.

Just in case keep your eyes peeled for any different or abnormal behavior.

Congratulations & welcome to the world of being skint, tired, worrying & putting people before yourself. On the bright side - you and your Mrs are bonded for life now - and you won't die alone as you'll always have a child in the world & probably grand children when your older.
Get some sleep just now and do all the crazy things you want to do - as you won't get a chance again until your old - and when you get old you won't be wanting to do those things anymore and will opt for a snooze or doing something less tiresome and adventurous.

That’s exciting! Vomiting constantly is normal. My wife never got morning sickness, but my friends wife had it pretty bad. My wife was super nesting in her second trimester. I had a hard time keeping up. Well, I have a hard time keeping up with her anyway.

Have a happy parenthood!

Congrats! As for what slaphappygamer said: bang on the nail! Don't worry about her yakking up, or losing weight at this stage of her pregnancy, perfectly normal! Don't worry, 8 months in and she'll look like a beached whale haha!
And as for what azoreseuropa said a bit further up: what a load of horseshit! Don't look at the extreme moron 2% of 'dads' and claim that's what we're all like

And enjoy the labour room activities!! (and try and get a dib on that gas & air when the nurses aren't looking - I'm telling you now that's some good shit! )

Hello.

How is the family "Taleweaver" ?
What about the Progress of Pregnancy ?
I hope all of you are healthy.

Kind Regards.
Alex.

@alexander1970 (and others):

Thanks for the inquiry. It's nice to see so many likes for this news.

Let's start with the good news: I'm no longer under omerta embargo vow of silence by my girlfriend about the gender. Meaning: we're going to have a little girl. The due date is the 27th of January, and thus far there are no grave complications in regards to health.


In...neutral news, I guess (?): she sits at home since about a month now, until...probably June next year (including all sorts of maternity leaves). It's not up to me to give too much details, but her job took a huge mental impact. In theory, she was supposed to be the manager. In practice, she had to deal with absent employees almost from day 1 (day 2 to be precise), so had to cover a lot of work. This was the main reason of stress. And since she's on maternity leave, her mood has significantly improved.

More neutral news: the renovations are still ongoing. Since about a month, we enter the phase where everything seems to go well. Those who've been through one can probably attest that the 'breaking down' part seems to go on forever. I might do another blog post/rant about this, but suffice here to say that we now start to see result. I mean...we've been laying the floor work for literally MONTHS now (we started in...may, I think?), but last weekends we got around to laying the actual tiles. So we're getting closer to the end on that front. Prospects are we'll be fine before 2020 on the major chores.

The bad news...her health isn't 100%. If she has to get up early, she has to throw up. Her...erm...stomach muscles (if that's the correct translation of "buikspieren"?) are almost nil, so she has to take mundane tasks like getting up from a lying position, getting out of a car or putting on pants very slowly. The main trap here is the renovations: she WANTS to help, but has overstretched a few times (the pain gets her AFTER doing it, so even 'taking it slowly' might not be enough). I have to tell her at least ten times that I can manage the works on my own before she starts to believe me (which...often means I hear her say "ow, look out...you've got a bit of smear on that part of the tile!"...while I'm cleaning the tile with whatever finger isn't yet drenched in the special glue for this task ).
The worst news: the central heating won't be connected until the end of the month. And that means that the only heating comes from a small electric heater that was meant for a bathroom. It worked fine for the one room we really live in (the closed porch), but unfortunately the firm who came to deliver all the new windows replaced the inhouse window before realising they didn't have the glass. So our heating gets partially lost to the inside of the house, which means we're out camping on the couch with extra blankets to keep warm. That...certainly isn't fun in this time of year.



...but to end on a positive note: despite the renovations (okay: partially also because of that) I'm starting to get into what could be called a "fatherly groove". Initially, visiting shops to create baby lists was something I saw as distraction from the works, but I now start to see the picture there ("once these tiles are done and the floor heating is up, we're going to have a little Weaver crawling around in here "). We've visited the medic crew that'll help deliver the baby, checked out a nice crèche (not sure about your part of the world, but in Belgium you basically need to arrange this waaaay before the due date(1)) and talk about possible things to do with her on a near-daily basis. So...this'll go well.

Again: thanks for the request. I won't be able to deliver cards to everyone, but I'll try to scan and upload an image shortly after she's born.



(1): heck...my parents often told me they received congratulations when they enrolled my brother. The thing was...my mother wasn't pregnant at that time yet. So yeah...we're pretty late, compared to them (then again, we don't live in the center of a large city)

I hope all will go well

Thank you.

I am really sorry to hear about the "bad" News..
I knew it did not help you all at this moment,but I wish you all the Best that all goes Well.
Also with the "heating"...Your health "depends" on that and hopefully there is soon a Light on the Horizon for this.

Thank you for your "Life Update".
All the Best and Health for you All.

Kind Regards.
Alex.

Hello.

Man,how time runs.....

I think now the Time will come soon...

Are you all healthy ?

Are you on schedule with the renovation ?
(I really hope so for you all..)

How can a Year starts better than with a new Life.

All good and stay healthy please.

Congrats!!! I got three (wanted to give our oldest ONE sibbling, we got two more ). Your life will change completely.