Being sick sucks. It just does. Now imagine being the daddy-to-be and being sick. Before the pregnancy you were just a annoying whiner on your death bed for her to contend with. Now you're a ticking time bomb because if you make mommy-to-be sick, well, she's SOL because she can't take anything. You, at least, have options: Dayquil; Robitussen; Seppuku, the Samurai suicide ritual.
Keeping mommy-to-be germ-free is also an act of self-preservation. Think about the mood roller coaster and physical well-being of the average pregnant woman. Now add a runny nose, coughing, fever, chest congestion and watery eyes with no road for relief for her or you and what you have is Stephen King's next novel and you're the first one eaten by the giant bug or demon or whatever the hell he writes about nowadays. She will be miserable. You will be miserable by proxy for making her sick in the first place, plus you knocked her up so she might be holding that against you at this point as well. It's a doomsday scenario you don't want to have to plan for, but in the event it does happen keep these few rules in mind:
1. Keep your oozing, runny, snot locker under control. Besides being the most common way to spread whatever biological weapon you're carrying, if your lovely pregnant lady is nauseous you're likely going to cause her to lose her lunch every time you trigger the chemical reaction that changes a Kleenex from a solid to a liquid.
2. Don't kiss her. I know this is a hard one from experience, but if you kiss her when you're sick you will have set in motion a series of events that will scar you for the rest of your life.
3. Hand sanitizer gel: learn to love it. Keeping your own lethality under control is much easier and more desirable than her spraying Lysol in your germy little face twelve times a day.
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