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    My beautiful, incredible, talented, and (most importantly) forgiving wife is pregnant. While the pregnancy was completely unexpected, I couldn't be happier. There's just one thing, I feel really left out.
     Don't get me wrong, it's a good thing I'm not the one experiencing the morning sickness, sleepless nights, or what must be the bizarre realization that something is growing in my body that isn't the product of a large dinner. She is the most qualified to handle all of those things, both physically and psychologically. But there's a process that going on in her mind, her body, and her hormones that is not only a complete mystery to me, but I'm pretty sure is a mystery to her as well.
     So why write a blog about it? The one thing that bothers me about blogs is they are necessarily egocentric and narcissistic at best. Who am I to assume that anyone in the world wants to know my thoughts on anything?
     Simple. No one else is doing it.
     If you look up "pregnant blog guy" on Google, you'll a bunch of info about the woman who became a man but still had her internal plumbing and is now going to give birth to a baby. Though it may very well fall under the auspices of "pregnant blog guy", it does very little for me. I've purchased books, talked with my wife, read things online, but there aren't many places men can go for support and we tend to be out of our element, uncomfortable, and obtuse until it's time to interrogate the first boyfriend or explain what a knuckle ball is and why it's so hard to hit.

     I'll be interviewing fathers and fathers-to-be and hopefully posts in on this blog may help other men who feel like they need something more than a fake baby belly to feel connected with their wives as pregnancy progresses. Maybe, if we all pull together, we may be able to get through this like our fathers never could.