Sometime ago, I was going to work one morning, and I met the wife of one brother I know in the church. She’s heavily pregnant for the second time.
This is a woman I attended to her wedding. You needed to see how she was looking on her wedding day. She was very slim, but the last time I saw her, she was looking double what she used to be. She has added so much weight. The pregnancy is really taking a toll on her.
It’s at this stage that many women begin to struggle with self-esteem. They will be thinking that their husband won’t find them attractive anymore and that they will start looking outside for other women.
As a man with a pregnant wife, you need to understand that pregnancy comes with a whole lot of things. From gaining weight to irritation to other undesirable occurrences. So, here are the 5 things you can do for your pregnant woman.
1) Help Her
The time of pregnancy is not the time to subject your wife to too much cooking, washing, and bending down.
This is the time to help her do those things that she normally does. Allow her to rest, sweep the house, cook for her, and wash the clothes. Just help out in any way you can. If you can not do that, hire someone to do that.
I don’t think it’s right to allow your pregnant wife to enter the kitchen with pregnancy, especially when it’s 7 months upwards.
2) Compliment Her
During pregnancy, a lot of women tend to look unattractive, untidy, and unkempt due to the wahalas that come with being pregnant. Some of them add weight with swelling legs and body.
So, at this stage, she will need your compliment and positive affirmations. Tell her how beautiful she is, how great her body is and really meant it, and even have sex with her to let her know that you still find her attractive.
3) Be There For Her
As much as possible, try and be there for her. Whenever she is going for antenatal and medical check-up, go with her and be there for her.
Don’t be an absentee husband. Remember she’s carrying your baby, the exploit of your weapon of war. Don’t be a hit and run husband. Be there for her as much as possible.
4) Be patient
Due to the irritation that comes with pregnancy, a lot of women can be so annoying.
How can you be requesting plantain soup and semo by 3 in the morning or carmel neck at the middle of the night?
Some of them will ask for jollof rice cooked with fire wool. Wetin happen?
Some of them will be spitting every second, phew phew phew….yuck.
In all these, you need to be patient as a husband. It’s not easy. If you’re not patient, you will get frustrated and angry and may do something funny. So, be patient.
5) Support Her
Your woman needs a lot of support from you…
✔️ Support her emotionally. Pregnancy involves a lot of ups and downs. Some women are afraid of childbirth. So, encourage her to help her overcome her fears and worries.
✔ Support her spiritually. Pray for her. Pray against forces of darkness aiming at her pregnancy. Pray for her successful delivery.
️✔ Support her ️financially, physically, psychologically, and otherwise. Pregnancy isn’t a small thing. Not everyone who experiences it comes out from it. So, support your woman.
Here are five things you can do for your pregnant wife. With these, getting pregnant won’t be a lot of work for your wife because she knows she has a supportive husband to stand by her.
