What to Expect when YOU are expecting??

I am truly amazed these days what types of materials and the load of advice out there.  When I first learned I was going to be a dad in oh 40 weeks I decided that I would hit up amazon and do some book searching.  

I didn't want to go and just read the typical what to expect book, and let me tell you there are so many of those! So I went and looked for books that were written by guys for guys.  Do I want to know what is going on inside the body of my beautiful wife, of course I do.  Do I want to know every little minute, no not really.  I wanted to know how to make it out of this whole birthing thing alive!  

I decided to buy this book called "The Guy's Guild to Surviving Pregnancy. Childbirth, and the First Years of Fatherhood." By Michael Crider

This was a great book.  One of the first things that I have already noticed is the word "Normal."

When you get pregnant people start throwing this word around like its candy.  Well lets just be honest, the word "normal" when applied to pregnancy is just wrong.  No matter where you look if there is something weird happening and you don't know what is going on you check the net and get 20 different answers that all claim a different cause then tell you "its Normal" 

That just totally freaks me out because nothing is "Normal" ever again and everyone who has been in this situation and keeps telling you "this is normal" knows it isn't.  

Well we are about 8 weeks now and getting so close to day we hear the heartbeat.  I can't wait.  For me these past weeks have been filled with constant shuffling from this isn't happening to I can't wait till he/she (secretly hoping for a he) to get here.  All I do know is that I pray everyday for this miracle growing in my wife's belly and I think God for the blessing he has given.

Those two pink lines that change your life

What do you say when you walk home from work and you see those two little lines in that results window.  My jaw dropped and the first thing I could think of was "they didn't think i could do it on the first try!"

Yes I did.  Well if you haven't figured out what I am referring to is the affirmative results window of the little stick my beautiful wife had to pee on.  Yes the pregnancy test.  My wife and I decided to make our little home resound with noise of the pitter pattering of little feet.  I don't think I have ever used that term before.  

The decision to do this was not a light one.  My wife, God I love her, never makes a single decision lightly.  We finally decided to start trying in March but last march she decided to start reading.  After she made the decision to actually start this process, by getting of birth control, she went out and got every book she could.  There must be 3 what to expect books on my night stand.  Not only that but a lamaze book.  So she read them almost every night turning over to me and saying things like "did you  know that when a woman pushes she craps herself." 

So we are on this road of discovery and invite you to tag along on our journey.  I will attempt to inform all of those in our life and those not of all the little things leading up to "THE BIG PUSH"