# My wife is pregnant! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 9, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885 "2008-01-09T18:44:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885/1 "2008-01-09T18:44:51Z")
We just had it confirmed yesterday by the doctor: my wife is pregnant! We’ve been trying for a long time to have a child, and finally success! So we are very excited, but at the same time anxious. Ed ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885/2 "2008-01-09T18:48:27Z")
Grats! ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885/3 "2008-01-09T18:49:02Z")
Congratulations! 😃 When is she due? ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885/4 "2008-01-09T18:51:19Z")
Congratulations! My sister’s baby is due in a week or two. Exciting times - I’ll be an uncle! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885/5 "2008-01-09T18:53:26Z")
wOOt! Congratulations and good luck! ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885/6 "2008-01-09T18:55:06Z")
Congratumalations. Hope this is an easy and uneventful pregnancy for you both, and that the strange food cravings aren’t too outlandish. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885/7 "2008-01-09T19:09:32Z")
Congratulations! Do you want a boy or a girl? Got names picked out? If this kid is the first grandchild on either side of the family, you may be able to make out like a bandit when it comes to baby gifts. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885/8 "2008-01-09T19:10:25Z")
Congratulations. Sleep now while you can. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885/9 "2008-01-09T19:10:26Z")
Congratulations! How far along is she, and when’s the due date? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885/10 "2008-01-09T19:23:31Z")
Congratulations! Excited and anxious is probably the proper state of mind for you to be in. Having a baby changes your life both more and less than you think it will. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885/11 "2008-01-09T19:51:07Z")
Congratulations! I hope it is a smooth, uneventful pregnancy, an easy delivery and a healthy baby. Hold your wife, tell her every day how much you love her and how beautiful she is and how happy you are. And get ready for the late night runs for ice cream, burritos, ranch Doritos and eventually diapers. Your life will never be the same. The first time that little person looks at you and says, “Da-da,” your heart will melt into a billion pieces. Of course, when they look at the dog and say, “Da-da,” it loses its shine a little. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885/12 "2008-01-09T19:52:23Z")
Congratulations! Here’s hoping for a healthy term. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Real\_Thing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@The\_Real\_Thing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Real_Thing)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885/13 "2008-01-09T20:04:33Z")
Congratulations and best of luck! ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885/14 "2008-01-09T20:11:29Z")
Thanks for all the good wishes. Due date is the end of August. We would be happy with either sex. We already have a boy’s name picked out, still thinking about girl’s names. Ed ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885/15 "2008-01-09T20:11:58Z")
Congratulations, and thank you for not destroying another small piece of my soul by saying “we’re pregnant.” ---
**Author:** ![Jimson\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@Jimson\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimson_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885/16 "2008-01-09T21:30:35Z")
Congratulations. I wish your wife a healthy, happy, event free pregnancy. Be warned this time passes very quickly. It seems like only yesterday we learned my wife was pregnant and now she’s due in less than 60 days. If I may one little bit of advice for you the prospective dad. I learned this from personal experience. If you are worried about a particular condition involving the pregnancy, say you read it in one of the plethora of pregnancy books or heard somebody say something in one of those pregnancy horror stories, (you and especially your wife will be treated to dozens) do not under any circumstances look it up on the web. Never NEVER do this. It will only scare the crap out of you. Which of course you can’t hide from your wife so it in turn scares her. ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885/17 "2008-01-09T22:31:39Z")
Congrats! Who’s the father? {swish} ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885/18 "2008-01-09T22:48:48Z")
Congrats! I hope the pregnancy is smooth and the delivery is, well, I’m not going to lie, as painless as possible. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885/19 "2008-01-10T03:46:20Z")
Woohoo! Congrats to you and yours. As hub once said, “Having a kid was the best and worst thing I ever did!” 🙂 Enjoy your journey! ---
**Author:** ![Suse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Suse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suse)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-pregnant/432885/20 "2008-01-10T05:03:32Z")
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