Expecting a Child
Expecting a child is a unique and special experience for both parents. Countless book, guides, magazines, TV-shows and Internet websites put a lot of attention to the period before the arrival of a child although it is not hard to notice that most of the attention is paid to future mothers, their feelings when discovering they are pregnant, how their body transforms during the following 9 months, which are the most common complaints during pregnancy, possible complications of birth, labor pain, etc., while future fathers are kind of pushed aside. However, finding out one is to become a father is a major event in each man's life although women are those who physically expect and experience the changes of creating a new life.
Finding out one will become a parent is a major turning point for both parties
involved which comparable to the day when becoming a child. Although reactions of
men greatly vary when discovering they are fathers-to-be each men instantly realizes
his life is about to change a lot during and after the next 9 months. Even more,
feelings that men experience when they told that they will become fathers can be
compared with feelings of women when gynecologists confirms what they have
suspected.
Pregnancy is a special experience for each women which is sometimes both pleasant and unpleasant but pregnancy is also very special period of time for expectant fathers. The majority of men is very curious in what their female partners are experiencing physically and emotionally, thrilled when they can feel the baby is moving, wonder if it a boy or a girl, get sentimental when they take a look in the future nursery, etc.