# My wife and I have increased our Darwinian fitness! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587 "2010-03-07T03:47:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Elysium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@Elysium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysium)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587/21 "2010-03-08T17:48:23Z")
YAY! Congrats **Ogre**! I bet he’s adorable :). We’re at week 23 here and our boy is kicking away at me daily. I can’t wait for him to arrive. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587/22 "2010-03-08T21:06:28Z")
Congratulations! Sleep while you can, and treasure all the awesomeness of this period. And post some pictures! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587/23 "2010-03-08T21:27:48Z")
Congratulations! May you all rest and recover and be happy. I wasn’t sure on seeing the thread title whether you’d had a child or killed off some rivals before they could have a child… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587/24 "2010-03-09T00:50:55Z")
Huzzah for fresh-squeezed DoperBabies! Many congratulations – the road isn’t always easy, but man is it ever a fun ride. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587/25 "2010-03-09T01:53:33Z")
Thanks, folks. I think he’s quite the dashing young lad, myself. He does have the Winston Churchill chin, but I suppose that’s to be expected. Anyhow, you be the judge: [![](https://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z40/Samnite_photos/DSCN0042.jpg) ](https://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z40/Samnite_photos/DSCN0042.jpg) > [@](#): > > Indeed. The first trimester was not so good. She is feeling better now, but it is definitely a strain. Our ultrasound 2 is on Friday, and we absolutely plan on finding out the gender. As long as the Abomination cooperates and gives us a nice, clean look. I understand. That first trimester was difficult. It got much better for the second and third. Now I’m watching her like a hawk for post partum depression. > [@](#): > > I wasn’t sure on seeing the thread title whether you’d had a child or killed off some rivals before they could have a child… Wait. It’s both. I mean, that’s normal, right? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587/26 "2010-03-09T02:04:24Z")
What a cutie! Congrats! Was your wife under general for the c-section? I was too, so if she needs someone to talk to regarding the birth trauma who has been through it, feel free to send her my way. ---
**Author:** ![Neeps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a183cd/32.png) [@Neeps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neeps)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587/27 "2010-03-09T08:34:54Z")
Damn, that’s a beautiful baby! Hope mine’s half as cute as that (2 weeks to go!). I love seeing proud papas - it makes me all warm and fuzzy (or that could be the late pregnancy hormones…). ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587/28 "2010-03-09T09:09:24Z")
Wow. He’s quite beautiful. He looks like a doll. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587/29 "2010-03-09T12:51:07Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Many blessings on your spawn. > 🙂 This is awesome and should be on a Hallmark Card. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587/30 "2010-03-09T12:54:59Z")
BTW, congrats to you and your wife on the arrival of your spawn! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587/31 "2010-03-09T12:56:30Z")
That isn’t a real human baby. That is a doll. Is that a bacon flavored pacifer? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587/32 "2010-03-09T14:04:17Z")
Hey - you all made a tiny human. Conga-rats. He took to the passie - be thankful. Fang did, while Spike and Squeaky did not. The models that take the passie are much, much quieter. Now get ready for tons of unsolicited advice from “helpful” people. (Though to spare you from possible embarrassment and possibly looking like a prev in the Walmart, Udder Cream really works on the chaffing, if your wife is breast feeding.) ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587/33 "2010-03-09T19:26:12Z")
That’s one cute baby! C-sectioners are always the cutest, they don’t have little squashed faces and coneheads as much. Simply adorable. Don’t get too used to that peaceful, contented, angelic expression though! It’s just to get your votes before he appoints himself Dictator of the Household. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587/34 "2010-03-09T19:32:50Z")
That… that’s not an Ogre at all! You liar! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587/35 "2010-03-09T22:58:57Z")
Man, that is one beautiful baby! Congratulations to you and the obviously mis-named Mrs. Ogre. /Gramma Cathy, cute baby expert ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587/36 "2010-03-09T23:05:22Z")
Ogre, he’s gorgeous, and I’m smilin’ for him ‘cause I know he’s got such a fine Dad! One who’ll teach him about this Sweet Ol’ World, and, well, do they make Fenders for toddlers??? Congrats, and, yeah, what’s the name ? ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587/37 "2010-03-09T23:24:19Z")
He’s adorable! (And I usually find babies creepy so that’s high praise indeed!) ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587/38 "2010-03-09T23:33:17Z")
What a cutie! Congrats to the whole family! ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587/39 "2010-03-10T00:14:33Z")
Congrats! Good luck! Better you than me! 🙂 “A newborn baby is a vote that the world should go on.” ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587/40 "2010-03-10T19:52:50Z")
Ha! As a proud papa, I’m pretty much contractually obliged to think that my kid is devastatingly handsome. I’m glad to see that there’s a certain amount of agreement! And yeah, he’s a sweetheart so far. Very alert and aware, but not terribly fussy (except when daddy is wiping his butt with a cold, wet cloth). He loves to be all swaddled up, and he’s apparently a good sleeper. He woke us up at 2AM for a few minutes and then at 8AM. And hey there, **elelle**! Good to hear from you. You’re too sweet. He’s named after my wife’s brother, and my maternal grandmother. His name is Eric Emerson. 🙂 Thanks, guys, for all the kind words. My wife is smiling at all the nice comments as I’m reading them to her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-and-i-have-increased-our-darwinian-fitness/531587.md?page=1)