Apologies for my ultra-slackness of late!
We had out latest session at baby-school the other day which centred around problematic births and covered all the main issues — drugs and their side-effects, the whens, hows and whys of C-sections and so on. It was all pretty interesting, but the best bit was that all us men got the opportunity to see just what it is like to be pregnant. The teacher has a harness-like thing we got to wear. It contained a sandbag for a belly that mimicked a pregnancy at about 6-7 months.
While it was heavy, I made the mistake of commenting that it wasn’t so bad… and it wasn’t — if you just stood there.
Moving, walking, bending over, laying down then sitting up, trying to do a pushup were all far harder than I’d expected (and I find doing a pushup hard at the best of times) but at least I know now why S grunts and groans so much when she’s trying to rollover.