We are pregnant!

[Amaris]

That is one hell of a visualization.

Dave Barry said it best, I believe his analogy was that pregnancy and childbirth are comparable to driving a UPS truck through an inner tube.

Ah, good ol' Dave Barry. He's probably the smartest bastard alive.

That is one hell of a visualization.

Washing baby poo out of your own hair is a parental right of passage. It's amazing how far and wide that stuff travels when baby is nappyless.

While I've changed a few dozen baby diapers in my day, I'm not sure how I could handle exploding baby poo. You're a saint.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

While I've changed a few dozen baby diapers in my day, I'm not sure how I could handle exploding baby poo.

Alcohol. Lots and lots of alcohol.

And only some of it for cleaning purposes.

 

[Sector 7]

I have no problem with it. My concern is with women who want to shut out the man from the experience, yet also complain when he becomes aloof because of it.

 

[scotpens]

Washing baby poo out of your own hair is a parental right of passage. It's amazing how far and wide that stuff travels when baby is nappyless.

Remind me never to have children. (As if I needed reminding.) Hell, I don't even want to touch a clean baby.

 

[Mary Ann]

While I've changed a few dozen baby diapers in my day, I'm not sure how I could handle exploding baby poo.

Alcohol. Lots and lots of alcohol.

And only some of it for cleaning purposes.

This!

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

When it is your baby it is not like real poo to you, it is like the ambrosial fluids of pure, pure love.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Covered in poo.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Well uhhh.. yeah.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I have no problem with it. My concern is with women who want to shut out the man from the experience, yet also complain when he becomes aloof because of it.

And who might these mythical women be?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

You know... those women.

 

[{ Emilia }]

Pregnancy, the perfect topic for Men's Rights Activists.

 

[Deckerd]

I get a little bit tired of all the enthusiastic squealing which goes on by other women around a heavily pregnant woman. They've obviously forgotten the aching back, GG cup bras and the hemorrhoid cream. Either that or it's subversive, in which case I approve.

 

[Mary Ann]

Deep down we're cackling evilly.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

I very much agree with Miss Chicken on that one. As long as the male doesn't carry the fetus for 40 weeks he's definitely *not* pregnant.

Also, I always found that the phrase "delivering a baby" couldn't be farther off the point.
It degrades the female to a sort of automat or catering service that fulfills your order, as if giving birth was equally ranking as the Pizza guy bringing your supper. Whoever coined the phrase had no idea how painful, exhausting and risky a birth is (for both mother and child). And the 9 months leading up to that event aren't exactly fun either.

And the list of not exactly apt phrases doesn't even start there. It all begins with "making love". One doesn't *make* love, one *feels* it. And - sad as it may be - love is very often only marginally involved when people copulate. It's more a matter of lust (or sometimes even just of letting off steam). Nothing wrong with that, but one shouldn't be afraid to name it.

A phrase I like, though, is "falling in love". Nice image *splat*

 

[Bob The Skutter]

"We ordered this damned baby 9 months ago and your delivery driver still isn't here. You're not getting my money and I'm never using your service again!"

"I've fallen in love and it's all sticky, I'm going to have to wash these clothes."

 

[tomalak301]

I of course have no experience, but isn't Pregnancy supposed to be a team effort? I mean the guy did get the girl pregnant, and it is important for both to be there and supported when the baby comes to term. Also, isn't good parenting supposed to be a shared experience between the two? I know it's the woman who carries the baby, but it seems to me like the guy has a lot of responsibilities too, mainly to provide support.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

We work in the mental health service. RevdKathy does all the work but I'm supportive. We also need a heart/lung transplant, I have all the medical appointments but again RevdKathy is supportive.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

LOL! Thanks for cheering me up, Bob. I really need it today.

I couldn't agree more, Sharksfan, but pregnancy is still a physical condition and one that in our species only appears in females.
It'd be better imo if the male would put it like this: "we're expecting a baby" or "we are going to be parents". Both would express a mutual and equally strong involvement plus be anatomically and medically correct. After all, if you pardon the somewhat extreme example, if a woman's husband gets a typically male sort of cancer, the wife wouldn't say "we have prostate cancer" either.

 

[RevdKathy]

We work in the mental health service. RevdKathy does all the work but I'm supportive. We also need a heart/lung transplant, I have all the medical appointments but again RevdKathy is supportive.

You mean I do all the work and you spend the salary. Perfect teamwork.

As for the transplant, I think we could only say "we're" having a transplant if I were the donor.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

You mean I do all the work and you spend the salary.

a perfect definition of marriage