Becoming a father part VI: The pregnancy

Next time I'm sure it will be different. They say that every pregnancy is different. But if we could have this same pregnancy every time, that would be okay with me.

My wife didn't have most of the common problems associated with pregnancy. She didn't have morning sickness. She had some muscle cramping, but not much. She was able to run into her 23rd week and did pregancy yoga after that. She didn't get any weird cravings. She wasn't unduly uncomfortable. There were no complications.

For the last couple of weeks of the pregancy we told people that it was 4-6 weeks away. Then 3-5 weeks away. Then 2-4 weeks. We didn't have any sort of deadline mentality. My sisters-in-law had always been a couple of weeks late and had to be induced. We didn't mind the couple of weeks late, but we wanted to avoid the induction.

In fact, we asked for the doctor to not perform any internal exams for the last four weeks of the pregnancy. We didn't want to get frustrated by a lack of progress or get an any-minute-now message with weeks to go. We were comfortable that we were progressing and that was enough. We had the feeling that the doctor looked forward to our visits because we generally had few questions and, with no internal exam, we were a quick appointment to help get back on schedule.

Yep, I'd bottle that one and sell it if I could.