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Surprised I presumed I fired blanks after years of over doing it.
It all came at a pretty inconvenient time but I always said if it happens we will deal with it.
Nearly 4 years now. I probably wouldn't be where we are now, that had its posies and negatives.
Not much you can do though one they are born. Not like you can set them free back to the wild
Shocked and very very happy..
Wife expecting our first in May. We'd struggled for years with an early miscarriage and no further success conceiving. We were about to start first round of IVF and really wasn't looking forward to the stain it was going to put on us, when we realised we'd managed naturally..
Jeff
"IT WORKS" were the first things out of my mouth
This was shouted a lot during the following hour 😀
ajt - Congratulations as well! It certainly is a weird feeling knowing that I am going to be responsible for someone other than myself. That is a scary but also amazing feeling. I really cant wait for all the happy times to come. The biggest feeling at the moment has to be apprehension as need to get through the first 12 week scan so things are "safe" and we can tell other people. I want to shout from the roof tops!
Loving the "hit in the face with a mallet" analogy, its exactly how it felt, but in a really really good way
OP get your sex in now. From a few friends apparently frequency of sex drops right off post birth onwards. 😯
OP get your sex in now. From a few friends apparently frequency of sex drops right off post birth onwards.
Agreed.
😥
Above all, I felt reassured that all the hassle over the years with contraception had not in fact been a waste of effort and, speaking as yorkshireman, money.
Binners is spot on.
with our first my reaction made me look like i'd been knocked for 6...wifey not pleased
with the second one we were both over the moon.
with the third we were both in a state of shock.
wouldn't have it any other way though.
enjoy parenthood OP its awesome...but forget about sleep, lie-ins, and your own personal time...that dont exist no more! 😉
Congratulations.
Best, and toughest thing you will ever do. #sciencefact
First reaction from me was 'oh eh, not now...' Since I came to realise there is no right time, other then when it happens.
A word of warning - we went in for a penny, in for a pound. Three kids in four and a smudge years. 😯 Once you pop, you can't stop... 😉
Not at all happy truth be told 😐 Not all women are 'earth mother' types.
Oops, they may have come across as crass. Didn't think I'd be able to have any children so it was a shock. All turned out OK in the end. 🙂
Can't wait until someone invents a male contraceptive pill.
Screw having kids until I'm 35.
Well our first is due in two months. It was planned and when she became pregnant I was pleased but it didn't really feel real at that stage and in all honesty there was so much to go through before I wanted to be overly excited - it's only now with two months to go, a wife with big boobs, a big belly, baby clothes, baby related stuff, over excited parents that it absolutely feels real and the excitement/fear/nerves are well and truly here.
Good luck OP. Hope all goes well for you both.
We'd had one or two issues conceiving, so we were very wary at first. So when we got past twenty weeks I guess that was when we allowed ourselves to get excited. As many have said above, it was a heady mix of joy and apprehension.
I just couldn't get past the feeling that I'm not a grown up (still don't fell like one - I'm 37).
When we got our daughter home (six and a half years ago now), we just looked at each other and said "bloody hell, what do we do now?"
We've got two great kids now and wouldn't change anything about them.
Slightly more serious answer is a bit unreal. "That's not a line is it?" "Nah, nah, erm then again..., ooer." And then I had to go off to work and tell no one for 11 weeks. That was many years and three kids ago. Just another of those things that's no big deal when it's someone else, centre of everything when it happens to you. Like getting smacked in the bollocks.
Ms Jimmy is 17 weeks gone, we've been trying for 2/3 years and found out after a holiday-of-a-lifetime. Came back from it thinking ok, if we can't have kids I know where I'm going every year of my life from now on. And then the blue line appeared on a test. The test stick - along with a whole packet of them - were out of date bit showed the same result. As did a fresh new pack, so that was that. Excitement was tempered by caution and disbelief for a couple of months, then full blown excitement, now a dawning realisation of what's to come. I AM excited, but at this stage my thought process is "but I like my life of zero responsibility and doing stuff I want when I want... Or not". I know that will change and the new focus will be totally rewarding. My biggest hope is just for a healthy 'normal' child to pop out. Or by some miracle a puppy.