From being pregnant to giving a birth. Daddy’s version.
When my wife just got pregnant, I was on top of the world. Long-awaited news caught me off guard. It took me couple minutes to resolve the puzzle, well, to actually look at my wife’s belly where she had the words ‘I am pregnant’ written. Yes, I cried. It has been a long journey as we waited for her pregnancy desperately for the last year, and more or less actively for the last two. You know, the stress when you need to match the ovulation days which are very specific and precise, you also need to be in the mood for making love. I never experienced such level of stress before. Coz pregnancy ended up being an adventure that you knew nothing about despite your preparedness, amount of books you read. Father instincts don’t emerge immediately, hence they develop with time and maybe they will appear the last minute, or maybe they don’t even visit you. Who knows, but my wife says that she started feeling my support on the last three months of her pregnancy when I started getting involved actively: cooking, tidying the house, being more present in our everyday life. I wouldn’t say that even at that time I had strong father instincts. It was evolving to what I have now.
