Why Husbands Feel Pregnant Too

I am a really really bad pregnant lady. Some women don't get sick or moody during pregnancy and enjoy every minute of it. On the contrary, I feel like I am on the worse end of the pregnancy symptoms, but I'm not the only one. Here are some symptoms I feel and how my husband feels them too.

1. Constant urination- I urinate about every 30 minutes during the day and at least every two hours during the nighttime. However in the middle of the night I don't flush the toilet because I figured it's liquid, I can't see it because it's dark, and the sound of the flush wakes me up.

I have a nightlight in my hallway, so when I open the door in the middle of the night, it lights up our bedroom. Then when I get back into bed, I always kick John and toss and turn for 5 minutes before I can fall asleep again. Poor guy. I know I wake him up in the night because he either stops snoring or moans a little, but he never remembers in the morning. I guess that symptom doesn't effect him as much.

2. Snoring- I was never one to snore before pregnancy, but now I snore louder than a freight train.

Poor John; the only time I snore is in his ear.

3. Tired ALL the time- I feel so tired all the time and I'm just immobile that I just sit in the house all day. It's not that fun. Sometimes, I can't even have people come over because it just stresses me out, or I will just be too tired or too sick to entertain anyone (remember I always have to be the center of attention).

With me being tired all the time, that means that John doesn't get to go out as often either. I mean, he can if he wants to, but being freezing cold where we live, going out all alone is lonely. Plus, after going out on our fun adventures together, him going alone would just be boring. Then I would cry that I was home alone while he did all the fun stuff. Poor husband. He has to deal with this pregnancy like I do.

4. Don't even get me started on mood swings. When I start getting in a bad mood, I try to exercise or move my body, but then I am just so tired and my lungs are so crowded that walking to the bathroom is more exercise than I even want.

And something I learned when I was younger, when mom is in a bad mood, everyone is in a bad mood.

5. My back constantly hurts. John has to massage it daily or I cry and can't sleep.

My back hurts equals his hands in pain from all that massaging. Then when I found out that massaging helps keep the feet from getting fat and swelling, he had something else to massage.

At least my feet are still cute.

Even through all my complaining, I'm surprise John doesn't complain at all because he certainly has a lot of things that he could complain about. I still have my smashed lungs, feelings of being fat, itchy stomach, laziness, grumpiness, extreme heartburn, soar ribs, occasional inability to walk, constant crying, and often a lopsided stomach.

John, on the other hand, has to clean the bathroom, make his own dinner most nights (grilled cheese or nachos), do the dishes, switch the laundry, take out the trash, constantly fill my glass with water, and listen to me whine all the time.

I'd say, he's got it worse than I do.