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April 2012 Moms
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A poll about the SOs
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Re: A poll about the SOs
1. What is your relationship with SO (married, engaged, boyfriend/girlfriend, it's complicated, etc)? Husband
2. How long have you been together? Together 5 years, married 3 years
3. What does he do for a living? Drafter
4. What was his reaction to your BFP? Kind of excited, I don't think it'll be "real" to him until after our first ultrasound.
5. What has he been doing around the house to help with the pregnancy? He cooks most meals and has cleaned a lot more than normal.
6. Will he be able to take paternity leave? He got laid off in Feb. So unless he get's a new full time job he'll be a stay at home daddy. (he has been doing some freelance stuff but it's not permanent.)
1. What is your relationship with SO (married, engaged, boyfriend/girlfriend, it's complicated, etc)? Married
2. How long have you been together? Together since 2007, married since this past June
3. What does he do for a living? Software developer
4. What was his reaction to your BFP? He is super excited and not nearly as nervous as I am!
5. What has he been doing around the house to help with the pregnancy? Not a whole, whole lot. My husband is super awesome, but never great with household duties. If I give him a specific responsibility he will do it. Luckily, I've been feeling great so I don't need too much help. He works like crazy and I've had the summer off.
6. Will he be able to take paternity leave? Yep! He gets an unlimited amount of time. He'll probably take a 2-3 weeks and then go back at least part time. It's not good for him to be out too long because he'll get far behind.
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1. What is your relationship with SO (married, engaged, boyfriend/girlfriend, it's complicated, etc)? Married
2. How long have you been together? 5 years (married almost 2)
3. What does he do for a living? Medical sales rep
4. What was his reaction to your BFP? We looked at the test together. We hugged each other and cried!
5. What has he been doing around the house to help with the pregnancy? He's been doing a ton of cleaning around the house and just left to do the grocery shopping for me!
6. Will he be able to take paternity leave? No. I'm a teacher so my maternity leave will be butting up to summer vacation so I will be able to stay home with the baby for the first six months!
Emerson Kate born 4/6/12, 5 lbs. 13 oz. 18 3/4 inches.
Happily expecting Baby Mac #2 around 4/13/14
1. What is your relationship with SO (married, engaged, boyfriend/girlfriend, it's complicated, etc)? Married since 8-8-09
2. How long have you been together? We started dating 7 years ago this month.
3. What does he do for a living? Some sort of business analyst. I know he spends his days on conference calls.
4. What was his reaction to your BFP? Same as me. A mix of nervous and excited!
5. What has he been doing around the house to help with the pregnancy? Not much yet, but there isn't much for him to do. He just takes care of the dog a bit more when I am exhausted.
6. Will he be able to take paternity leave? He currently works from home, so I hope this will continue to be the case in 8 months!
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5 cats. 1 baby.
1. What is your relationship with SO (married, engaged, boyfriend/girlfriend, it's complicated, etc)? Married
2. How long have you been together? Married for just over 1 1/2 years, together for just over 3 1/2 years.
3. What does he do for a living? Massage therapist, photographer, realtor
4. What was his reaction to your BFP? Complete surprise and very excited! He probably asked my seriously about 25 times. But we were told we probably wouldn't conceive without IVF due to our MFI issues.
5. What has he been doing around the house to help with the pregnancy? Not much so far other than will not let me lift anything heavy
6. Will he be able to take paternity leave? He will probably take a week or two off. Then will work his schedule so that little one will only have to be in daycare 2-3 days a week.
1. What is your relationship with SO (married, engaged, boyfriend/girlfriend, it's complicated, etc)? Married, four years on December 1
2. How long have you been together? Six years in October
3. What does he do for a living? Software engineer
4. What was his reaction to your BFP? Pleased but not tap-dancing or anything. It's our third...
5. What has he been doing around the house to help with the pregnancy? Nothing in particular, whatever I ask him to do.
6. Will he be able to take paternity leave? He could, but we'd both rather have him at work while my mom stays with us.
2. How long have you been together? Together for 10 years, married for 5 years
3. What does he do for a living? Retail manager
4. What was his reaction to your BFP? Happy but cautious until we saw the heartbeat. Now he's more excited.
5. What has he been doing around the house to help with the pregnancy? He has brought home dinner a few times so I didn't have to cook and has been very comforting when I'm not feeling well.
6. Will he be able to take paternity leave? No paternity leave, but he will take some vacation time after the baby is born.
1. What is your relationship with SO (married, engaged, boyfriend/girlfriend, it's complicated, etc)? married
2. How long have you been together? together for 3 years, married for 1 1/2 years
3. What does she do for a living? She is a teacher at the same school as me.
4. What was her reaction to your BFP? This was our fourth try so we were used to seeing negatvie results. I looked at the two lines and said "No foing way!" She satrted crying. And then we hugged.
5. What has he been doing around the house to help with the pregnancy? She has taken on all of the dog responsabilities, all the grocery shopping, and helps in general.
6. Will he be able to take paternity leave? YES! She can take up to 30 days. SO excited!
1. What is your relationship with SO (married, engaged, boyfriend/girlfriend, it's complicated, etc)? Married
2. How long have you been together? 6years
3. What does he do for a living? He's a senior stereo artist, he makes 2D movies into 3D. Like Shrek, transformers,green lantern,etc.
4. What was his reaction to your BFP? Super excited! He just kept saying really? We're pregnant! he was so sweet!
5. What has he been doing around the house to help with the pregnancy? Well once he's home, I can just sit down and relax, he's been super helpful and really helping out a lot!
6. Will he be able to take paternity leave? With DD he took a week off, so I'm thinking maybe he will get a week off this time, but it would be nice if he could take a little longer, especially having 2U2
1. What is your relationship with SO (married, engaged, boyfriend/girlfriend, it's complicated, etc)? Married
2. How long have you been together? Married-almost 9yrs, together almost 11 (known each other for 14yrs)
3. What does he do for a living? He's in the ARMY
4. What was his reaction to your BFP? Extremely excited but understandably cautious.
5. What has he been doing around the house to help with the pregnancy? Unfortunately nothing. He's been in GA for 2wks for school and he wont be back for about 7-8 more weeks
6. Will he be able to take paternity leave? IDK.
1. What is your relationship with SO (married, engaged, boyfriend/girlfriend, it's complicated, etc)? Married
2. How long have you been together? Married almost 8 months. Together 4 years.
3. What does he do for a living? Sales
4. What was his reaction to your BFP? Cautiously excited. He was over the moon and told EVERYONE with our first BFP which ended in a m/c, so he's a little more guarded with this one.
5. What has he been doing around the house to help with the pregnancy? NOTHING. This is a sore subject. He knows he needs to do better, but so far he's just been lazy I guess.
6. Will he be able to take paternity leave? Possibly, but since it would probably be without pay we won't be able to afford him taking off too long.