How to Handle a Pregnancy Gracefully as Possible

by Richard Rowell, Father-to-Be

I'll be straight up honest with you. I'm not handling this pregnancy as gracefully as I would like to. While Lyn and I don't argue, we have had a lot of stressful situations lately. Because she's been on bed rest, a lot has fallen on my shoulders. Also, I'm becoming extremely impatient, because I really just want to meet my daughter, dammit!

On the flip side, Lyn is handling what's been a very rough pregnancy about as gracefully as humanly possible. She still wants to do everything and I have to constantly stop her and just do things. She's still beautiful and wonderful just like the day I met her. We really just need to have Nova here, on the outside, so Lyn can really return to being herself. It's been very painful for most of the pregnancy, but after the 32-week preterm labor scare, it's only gotten worse each day. The stress that it's putting on me has almost broken me on some days.

Guys, those who have been through this late part of the pregnancy, I salute you. But Lyn has been about as good as she can possibly be. Part of it is that she's already had four. But this one is different. She went 11 years between pregnancies. I just want her to feel good again. She's still so beautiful, but I want her to actually feel like that again.

We're just human and of course, we'll have bad days. But if we're miserable, so is Nova. So please keep us in your thoughts and prayers these next couple of weeks. We really are just aiming for 37 weeks. We just have to survive until then.

I'm going to make it a point to write more updates going forward, as Nova deserves it.