Keeping a Pregnant Woman Happy

I realised fairly early on in my wife's pregnancy what my role should be in the whole process. I decided that like everything else there would be an ideal position for me in how everything would play out. I couldn't have the baby, and I couldn't carry the baby for the term. I couldn't make sure that the baby was healthy, and I couldn't make sure that my wife was healthy throughout the pregnancy, but what I could do was support my wife's every decision and be at her beck and call for the duration of the pregnancy. After all, she was carrying my child, and if I wanted the best for my child, then all I could do to safeguard that was to make my wife as comfortable as possible.

I also didn't want my wife to be worn out. I had read how tiring a pregnancy can be, and I vowed to dedicate myself to the cause.

I did many things throughout the pregnancy which were probably above and beyond the call of duty, but the one thing that sticks in my head was the craving runs! My wife became almost obsessed with cream cheese with raspberry jam on toast when she was about 21 weeks pregnant and I used to go wherever I needed to go to get the ingredients for her, morning noon or night! On one occasion ,she woke in the night and I could hear her moaning! She was just so desperate that I got out of bed, into my car and drove the fifteen miles to the nearest 24 hour supermarket! It seems so stupid now but it made me feel useful at the time, and sometimes as a helpless partner, that is all you crave.