Is my husband pregnant?

Luckily, Moncho doesn’t read my blog much so I can write this without him getting all hormonal on me. The question I’m asking is a serious one (insert laughter) and I’ve actually done some research into this question only to find that the fact that my husband is craving more sweets than I am, experiencing heartburn, stomach aches, and trouble sleeping is not as abnormal as one would think. I first started to wonder what was going on when one night after dinner, Monch asked me if I wanted to go get some ice cream. WHAT? This has never happened before for a few reasons. He’s not a huge ice cream fan, in fact he hates Mochi (frozen yogurt) and I usually have to twist his arm to get him to take me when I want some. Also, the random drive-by ice cream request came on a weeknight and usually once he’s home after a long 10 plus hour day it’s hard to get him to go anywhere that’s not the couch or bed…understandably. Of course, me being the pregnant one, I didn’t refuse the offer. It still seemed a little odd to me and I filed it away in my brain as a freak occurrence. The random ice cream requests and inquisitive questions about whether or not I had bought any cookies at the grocery store kept coming and it got me noticing some other things.

The other symptom that seemed to be ailing my non-pregnant husband was random nausea. Interesting, as I have been essentially nausea free throughout pretty much my whole pregnancy.  The inescapable reality of pregnancy that Mocho has managed to avoid is weight gain. Unfortunately, for him I’m pretty sure this would be one that he would actually like. He’s the type of person who loses weight if he doesn’t go to the gym. I’ve been doing pretty well in the weight gaining category though…I think we probably weigh the same now (If I’m being totally honest I think at this point I must weigh more than he does but this is a theory I’m okay with NOT testing).

Anyway, I finally figured out that Moncho was not in fact pregnant…obviously…but instead experiencing a sympathetic pregnancy otherwise known as Couvade’s Syndrome. When I looked it up I found that it is an actual diagnosis where the daddy-to-be experiences pregnancy like symptoms. It’s nice to know that my husband is so in tune with me that he is taking on some of the work of pregnancy for me and sharing in some of the fun symptoms of pregnant life!  I’ll happily go to get ice cream with him whenever he wants but if he starts asking me for foot massages I might have to draw the line.