Relationships with the parentals
leahraewku
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Has your relationship with your parents changed since you've gotten pregnant?
I expected to get closer to my mother when I got my BFP, but I wasn't anticipating the change in my relationship with my dad. We have never had a touchy-feely or overly close relationship. We don't hug, we don't tell each other we love each other (though we both know that we do), and we've never talked regularly on the phone. That's just not the type of person my dad is. He pretty much keeps to himself and does his own thing.
It's hilarious, because now I get random phone calls throughout the day from him checking on me....how I'm feeling, how my doctor's appointments are going, how the baby is doing. He called me today concerned about my decision to drive home to Cincinnati this weekend. He's afraid I'll go into labor and not make it back to Louisville to deliver. It's just funny to me because it's SO out of character for him to be so concerned with my life. I kinda like the change. 
Re: Relationships with the parentals
This is totally not parent related but similar.
I had a guy at work who is always trying to be super macho and stuff totally go soft on me when he found out I was expecting. I am high risk and he is constantly asking how I am and how the baby is and offering to help with things. At first it creeped me out a bit, but then he opened up to me and told me his wife had a miscarriage a month before I found out I was expecting. It totally changed my view of him, and now I think it's sweet that he's so worried about me.