for the ladies that have been pregnant...does your man not understand?

Question

why you are so tired and want to sleep more than usual???? i try to tell him but he thinks it's because i don't want to spend as much time with him....isn't he silly???? or a big baby rather...lol

Answer 1

You're right - your hormones are changing and he needs to accept that. Try buying "What to Expect When You're Expecting" and there should be some things in there for him to read to help him understand what you're going through.

Oh, and congratulations!!

Answer 2

My husband understands - to an extent. He knows why I sleep (actually I DON'T because its d*mn near impossible these days... I lay in bed for five hours staring into the darkness, tossing and turning until I finally just get up and pass out on the couch in the living room). But, he doesn't seem to understand when it comes to things that bother me. He always likes to make comments that are rather childish and it annoys me. Most the time I ignore them, but he doesnt really understand that his comments bother me sometimes. Like he will say "Geeze your getting fat". I know he is kidding (I am 6 1/2 months pregnant and I weigh 130. Pre-pregnancy 110) or if I am changing and he is in the room he will say something like "Gorilla boobies." (They are a DD now) But, then again... he is only 19 so most of it is just his immaturity.

Guys just dont understand.

Answer 3

It's hard for men to understand the changes a woman's body goes through when she's pregnant. Because they can't actually see it happening inside you, they don't always comprehend the magnitude of the whole process.

You're growing a life inside of you...of course you're tired! I don't really know what you can do to make him understand except to reassure him that you do love him and you want to spend time with him but you need to rest. Your baby needs you to rest.

And also, in my experience, men ARE big babies. I know mine is.

Good luck with your pregnancy!

Answer 4

i am 26 weeks preg with a 2 year old..my boyfriend owns his own business so is always working..i am a stay at home mom so i have my son all day everyday which gets very hard especially being preg...i am the one that gets up in the middle of the night with him and feeds him bathes him everything! sometimes i feel like he gives me a hard time and doesnt understand how i feel...i dont get to sleep through the night and i have a house to keep up with also....sometimes i feel like if the house isnt cleaned or im not constantly doing something hes going to say something to me....the laundry is what he gets mad at me the most about but its hard to go up and down stairs and in the basement with a laundry basket!!!! i completely know what your going through..our bodies are working so hard even when we sleep!!!!! he goes to work and comes home and is done but our work is never done..just talk to him about it i do constantly and he says he understands but i think guys just get weirded out by pregnancy and dont really know how to handle it, hang in there!!!!!

Answer 5

It's soo true men most men don't undertsand what women go through when they are pregnant. We have hormones going through our body like crazy and all they think about is themselves and why we are acting difrently towards them... But what we also got to keep in mind is that they have noway of undersatnding anything of what we go through we may tell them and try to explain it to them but they will never know exactly what it is we go through

Answer 6

You need to get him one of those books, what to expect when she's expecting. There is alot of information out there for fathers to be. Great way, to find out how supportive your man really is.

Answer 7

watch out for that one; he's going to be very childish when the baby comes if he can't grasp this simple concept already.