Maybe it is because I’m nine months pregnant, but I am currently very aware that no man will ever quite understand what it means to be pregnant. Oh, they can be sympathetic, supportive, and uplifting, but even the most ideal husband can’t relate to the various physical “joys” that come with carrying a child. Here are some great signs that even your fantastically spiritual Latter-day Saint husband just doesn’t understand.
1. In your last trimester, when you feel too exhausted to move, he asks you to substitute for several weeks as a Primary or Sunday school teacher.
2. He doesn’t understand why, if this is your fifth child, pregnancy doesn’t get easier and less painful, rather than harder and more exhausting.
3. He still thinks that after the delivery you’ll be able to go back to making homemade bread with a newborn in the house.
4. He truly believes that the maternity outfits you wore with your first child should still be in fashion ten years later, and you definitely don’t need any new ones. (He also believes that you should still be able to fit into them.)
5. One of the things he most looks forward to about having a new baby is getting to buy a new vehicle so your whole family will fit.
6. He wants to give you a blessing to carry the baby past the due date. He doesn’t understand why this makes you want to hit him.
7. On Fast Sunday, he tells you, “It’s only two meals! You can do it!”
8. He’s sure that you sent him to the grocery store with way too much money – then spends more than that and comes home shocked. He does this during every pregnancy.
9. After you have four kids in six years, he asks, “What do you mean, you want to give your body a break?!”
10. He doesn’t understand why you cry when your visiting teachers bring meals over.
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