My Pregnant Wife Almost Drove Me Nuts

posted on 7 April 2011 | posted in Health and Beauty


My wife and I had our first child a few years after we were married. For many different reasons we waited another thirteen years before we had a second child. For some reason either this experience was completely different than the first time or I did not remember all of the demands of my wife when I was younger. It was hard to do anything for a person for which nothing could be done right. No matter how hard I tried I was giving a lecture on what the correct way was. It seemed like every comforting thing I did was actually causing pain in some way. I bought her maternity lingerie which only seemed to upset her....it seemed I could do no right!

I had heard that some women were controlled by their hormones, but my wife had never been like this before. The hardest thing for me to deal with was her paranoia that something was going to go wrong. She was always afraid to do anything for fear that she would lose the pregnancy. This was a real fear she had and no matter what I or a doctor said, it could not be lessened. After a very long nine months my son arrived. In just a few months my wife returned to her old self. I will always blame the problems we had on the change in her hormones.