So, my wife is pregnant. Yes, I know, I am way, way, WAAY too old to be having another newborn. But it still is a wonderful thing.
Except for that sympathy morning sickness. I mean, doesn’t the Bible say Eve is supposed to suffer during childbirth, not Adam (Gen. 3:16)? I have been traveling for a week now, and I have had sympathy morning sickness all day long the whole time. Apparently there is no geographic limitation to this malady.
Everything I think about eating makes me feel sick. I mean, really, really sick, like I’m going to throw up. I have cravings for weird stuff, like ice cream and dry toast.
No, I don’t have the flu. I actually feel great, except for the constant feeling of nausea. No temperature, not even the sniffles.
So, next time somebody says women do all the suffering during pregnancy, you can tell them about poor, poor pitiful me. Oh, by the way, my wife is so sick she’s taking medication and can barely keep anything down. I hope you feel better, honey!
Well, my dear, since you do not “till the earth” like Adam, perhaps this is to even up the playing field (ha, ha). From the sound of things, I’m about two weeks farther along than you.
I never had sympathy morning sickness…just sympathy weight gain!!
Congratulations Geoff (and Sister B.) !! Wonderful news.
I feel for both of you. I had morning sickness 5 times, in varying degrees all thru the pregnancies, I have to add, I only threw up one time while “paper pregnant” with Hong Mei.
PS NO you are not too old for a newborn.
Geoff, I forget your exact age, but it sounds like you’re going to have a teenager in your house at age 65.
Book, that’s about right. If my youngest goes on a mission, I may have kids in college until my mid-70s. Yikes!
Yikes, is right, Geoff! I thought I had the field covered with the line, “My youngest will turn 18, the same year I can get young widow social security (60).”
Still, I always say, “What do I have better to do with my life than raise good kids”. Enjoy the journey.
Congrats.
We just had a couple in their mid 40’s have a baby in our ward. They had been they thought done with babies for years. As the Nigerian sister in my ward who lives on my street told me “when there is love there is always the potential for babies”
It just occurred to me that I may be having sympathy morning sickness because I’m unconsciously aware of making college tuition payments in my 70s.
I can sympathize on that one – I’ll be 37 in six weeks and don’t have any children yet. If and when my wife and I have children we will be at least into our forties before we’re done.