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punkrockabye
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I think the baby bug finally bit DH
punkrockabye
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I just need to get this out somewhere and you ladies are the only ones who would be remotely interested! I think the whole "less than two months until we try" thing has REALLY hit DH in the past couple weeks.
He went from being awkward and quiet during baby discussions several months ago, to finally caving in last month and letting me know that he's been talking about it at work. And even more recently, I've heard him drop mentions of hoping for a child soon in casual conversation with people. He keeps mentioning it in our conversations as well and it makes me feel so warm and fuzzy and all that happy crap :')
The best one happened today, though. There's a family in the building that's attached to ours who apparently uses cloth diapers. DH went down to start some laundry this afternoon after one of our dogs left a nice present on his doggie bed, and this trip resulted in my husband starting up a conversation about cloth diapering and how we plan on doing it as well and costs associated with it, etc etc... picturing him holding this conversation is just too entertaining.
I offered to do a quick cloth diaper 101 for him since it's me who has been doing all the research on it, and for he first time in, oh, ever, he quickly obliged. Right now I'm just wondering who it was sitting next to me and listening to me ramble on about diapers, and more importantly, what he did with my husband! I mean, I saw that telltale glimmer--albeit very quick--that he only and I repeat ONLY gets when he's ogling guitars.
For those of you who were TTA for a while and put a little thought into TTC (instead of, for example, just not TTA from the start), were any of your SO's nervous at first or take a while to openly talk about it? I can't get over his story about the diapers in the laundry room. He's so awkward.
As a side note, I totally feel for you ladies who are in your 2ww because waiting is terrible 
our time to actually start TTC is so close but still entirely too far away!
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Re: I think the baby bug finally bit DH
My DH was never into talking about children except for the fact that we would be waiting 3-4 years after getting married to start having them. Then my friends started having babies and I got stung by the baby bug.
All I could think about was when we should be having kids and what names we would use. I finally started to wear on him and now he's the one walking to the baby department in the stores to look at all the different things that we could get.
Now we are in the 2ww period and it is hell. I have been extremely tired and nauseous some mornings but I'm not supposed to get my period for another week. I really want to POAS but DH is keeping me from doing it.
My (now) husband has been talking for about 2 years in regards to having children and not being an "old" dad (no offense to anyone who has waited longer.) But he was never a fan of holding babies, or talking any further about it. Shortly before our wedding which was less than a month ago, he started making jokes to me about knocking me up, lol. While we were camping after the wedding and I would see a baby or kid acting up I would tease him, and say 'are you sure you want that right away?' or something of the sort, and he surprised the hell out of me when he would straight face answer 'yes' every time!
So we had a couple big discussions about it, and I told him that as long as we build in the spring I have no issues about starting to have a family. My 2 big things were to be married (check!) and be in a bigger house. So we've cleared everything with the bank, and we already own the land, the building will begin in April. If we have to live in town for the summer next year thats not a big deal, I just want to know that our child(ren?) will be raised in the country, but not necessarily born there.
Once that was cleared we had about 4 condoms left in the night stand, and one night he said, well I guess we'll finish up this box then not need to buy any more! when we were down to 1 condom left he said 'well if we're only one away what's the point in using it?' I agreed with him, and that was it. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not expecting to get pregnant by sex without a condom once (and I didn't, lol AF came shortly after) so I have started charting, checking bbt & cm, all the fun stuff. I'm not going to stress about it but I have found it all quite facinating really so it's been great. I really am shocked at how much he talks about babies and baby stuff now. Our first night after condom-less sex he looked at me and said 'I'm SO excited!!!' and it has stayed that way since.
I fully expect my wonderfully intelligent husband to wake up the morning after we first do it sans condom and ask me to POAS. I know he will. I know it. Clearly that is ridiculous, but inching closer and closer to the end of the 2ww will be terrible because neither of us have any willpower!
Man, I think he'd be thrilled if I told him we would finish out the condoms we have now. Our frequency is embarrassingly low at the moment and we bought a box a while back... they can just stick around until we TTA again.
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