I told W the other day \u2013 it\u2019s strange to think that this girl will never know us the way we are now. How we\u2019re experiencing this pregnancy and how our dynamics were prior to her arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
W and I have been for about 15 years now. We first met when we were both 21, and we had a couple dates right before I turned 22. Looking back, both of us were positively on cloud 9 in love. While we were relatively poor in resources we had so much fun doing both nothing and experiencing everything together. Now we\u2019ve settled down, have steady jobs, and acquired a home and also the fortune of maintaining a higher standard of living compared to our previous lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We were humming along at a nice, easy pace in life \u2013 concerned mainly for ourselves. This year our relationship has really changed. W and I are now focused on everything baby-related. Well, work and baby. It\u2019s such a pleasant and tender transition\u2026 we have always been extremely affectionat with each other, but now the focus is different. Nearly every morning, W hugs my belly and listens to this girl thumping around; he gets quite the pleased expression on his face when she\u2019s active. When we\u2019re at work, I\u2019ll instant message him when she\u2019s kicking and he loves the updates. He\u2019s happy that she\u2019s healthy. It\u2019s a very sweet time in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even with this daily shift, it will be such an adjustment when she arrives. It\u2019s always been just him and me. We were our own family. Now she\u2019ll be entering the picture and we will be hugging her instead of W hugging my belly. We will be interested in her, her needs and wants, and her developing personality. Our lives are apparently going to be focused on her and we may become second to each other. I don\u2019t know. In the end I hope that we\u2019ll achieve a good balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I told W the other day \u2013 it\u2019s strange to think that this girl will never know us the way we are now. How we\u2019re experiencing this pregnancy and how our dynamics were prior to her arrival. W and I have been for about 15 years now. We first met when we were both 21, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperfectmachine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperfectmachine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperfectmachine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperfectmachine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperfectmachine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imperfectmachine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"https:\/\/imperfectmachine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperfectmachine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperfectmachine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperfectmachine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}