My best friend is pregnant!

Babies are great. All my friends with babies are very cool.

My childhood best friend is expecting her second child. That makes me feel quite old.

A close friend of mine is preggo - well, his wife is preggo - but it's all still such a shock. Don't think I'll be able to completely grasp this until I see the baby. Unfortunately, think this may be the case for the baby's daddy too.

No, it's his.
Shotgun wedding and all.

Well, in any case, we might be able to tell when it's born??

What's a good gift for a pregnant friend? (p.s. not baby gifts, i'm thinking like really great food or something that helps her legs feel cool...probably not a gift certificate either because they already gave me one for Christmas and I don't want to do the whole pricing thing)

I love the idea of really great food.

During my first pregnancy, I also had this weird wedge-shaped pillow that I stuck under my belly as it grew. It was so simple, but I loved it!

Another gift I received was during early pregnancy; I was extremely nauseous and vomiting a lot... having trouble keeping food down. To distract me, a friend gave me three of Gavin Edwards' books of misheard song lyrics. I laughed and laughed at them. (This was 10 years ago - and I still enjoy those books!)

I love the song book idea! I guess it varies from person to person, but are there particular foods that you tend to crave? Sweets?

Thanks, by the way, for the response!

i don't buy the whole craving thing when it comes to pregnancy. that said, i craved junk food. oh my did i balloon. :-(

how about a gift certificate for three homecooked dinners delivered to her door after she has the little person?

This guy is a favorite in our household.

xpost, Tracer OTM, when friends had a baby recently, I figured they'd be inundated with baby things from all and sundry, and that the best thing I could give them would be time to do other stuff rather than have to cook.

bestest gift would be 8 hour sleep. please YSI me as well cause i haven't had 8 hour sleep for the past 15 months. LE SIGH

nath, it's funny that you craved junk food. I craved Kentucky Fried Chicken (extra crispy) with my first and hamburgers with my second. So really, I'm no help whatsoever here for anyone.

But I do kind of think meals after the baby comes is a brilliant idea, and nath is right about the sleep thing, too. (If you want to give a new parent the gift of sleep, they will love you forever, but it might be tricky.)

a friend of mine X has in turn, a friend Y who's just had twins. X offered Y the keys to her apartment, said she's about to go on vacation to florida and that Y should come over, BY HERSELF, whenever she wants. Y actually cried tears of joy.

Tracer, I should have handed keys to you and the Mrs for this very reason. How are things going?

it's actually going fine so far but i think we're still kind of high on euphoria

so glad you got tickets in the end!

Magz and Jim's kid is also a well-behaved little boy.

So, I just found out that two of my really good friends' wives are pregnant, each about the same time along (12 weeks)! They both seem really stoked.

I understand that the 12 weeks is conventionally the time during which the pregnancy is most uncertain, and you don't want to make an announcement before things look a little less potentially complicated. But I also think that it gives the guy time to get his head straight before telling any of his friends. I hung out with one of the guys who told me right after he found out about 10 weeks ago, and he seemed REALLY out of sorts and all just worked up about shit. He was MUCH happier about things when I spoke to him 10 min ago.

Odds that my wife and I have a conversation about this tonight : HIGH.
Odds that I get high during or immediately after that conversation : HIGHER.

So you...don't want kids, and your friend pretty much didn't either, but now that his wife is having one, he's getting used to the idea? And you see your doom, I mean, future in this? Or did I misread something?

this year has brought a serious rash of babies. three born in the first three months, two more due in the summer. surely there are some more being conceived as we speak. (i'm almost 35 btw, so this is not a surprise)

i can't believe the world can expect seven babies this year!

whatever, sprout. just wait til you're 35.

29 tomorrow iirc

happy birthday, here is a baby

So, I just found out that two of my really good friends' wives are pregnant, each about the same time along (12 weeks)! They both seem really stoked.

Make sure you don't give them the same name.

What I'm thinking is so delicate
If I breathe, you know, I'm going to lose it
It's just a drop in the biggest ocean I know I've ever seen
And in a moment it's big enough to drown the whole world
This is my present to the world
And I want you to take it
This is my present to the world
Take it from me, please, please take it from me

All I know is I don't know it
It's raining babies from the sky down on me
Tiny drops on my windshield
And in a second it's raining, raining all over the whole world

So you...don't want kids, and your friend pretty much didn't either, but now that his wife is having one, he's getting used to the idea? And you see your doom, I mean, future in this? Or did I misread something?

WOW. Entirely incorrect. Like, you couldn't be more incorrect.

I'm delighted to be wrong, cos it seemed kind of jerky and I always liked you before!! I am not grokking the "head straight" thing and your friend being unhappy originally, though.

Speaking as someone whose sister didn't want her first child until after he was born, it's not exclusively a male phenomenon. O_o

(i'm almost 35 btw, so this is not a surprise)

Yeah, I know three women, all of whom 34 or 35, who had babies last June alone.

"head straight" = still freaked out about becoming a dad and all the uncertainty contained therein(he's a solid, respectable dude who REALLY takes care of his biz), but able to talk about it without seeming totally overwhelmed. Whereas, when I saw him a few months ago he was CLEARLY overwhelmed by something.

As to my conversation, no doom. Just - there will be the inevitable inventory of "what we need to get in order before we can have kids", after which I will need to decompress.

I apologize for perceived jerkiness. Having kids be stressful.

Make sure you don't give them the same name.

i had two friends and coworkers whose wives were both pregnant the same time, and they kept sort of quiet about the names -- which is generally i think a good idea except when you decide to name your daughter olivia and your friend/coworker decides to name his daughter anna olivia. (this was when i first realized all these -a names were upon us.) there was actually a little irritation on both sides, from the wives too. but i guess they got over it. olivias for everyone.

Huzzah, Olivias!

my best friend is pregnant

I was gonna post the same thing

Awwww n/a :)

:D

wait what

hahahaha gbx: Knocked Up Rollcall