What is your partner doing to help you?

I’m really lucky that my husband has been amazing. I’ve had HG and really bad fatigue, and have been off work for 4 weeks now. My husband has taken over all tasks in the house like cooking for me when I feel like eating, getting me drinks, emptying my sick bucket, doing the food shop, doing the washing, sleeping in the spare room so I don’t get woken up by his alarm. I genuinely couldn’t ask him to be more helpful and supportive

Don’t compare your partner with anyone else.. that will definitely throw him off more, which will have him distant. What I’ve learned is to explain pregnancy to my husband because he didn’t understand logically why I’m feeling the way I am so he was distant. So what I did was google early pregnancy symptoms and told him this is all normal and sometimes I can’t control it and I look of solutions as well to help ease his mind knowing that I also can better and then that helped him cooked for me, helped him fix my bed at times, he even pour water on my head sometimes when I feel hot. I think men get weirded out when they see their other half in pain and can’t do nothing about it. They step away thinking they really can’t do anything cuz that’s just what it is but not true! Just communicate with him in a kind gentle way to help him Understand I’m sure he will come around.

Bugger all 😂 I have to prompt/ask/nag to do things that I’m struggling with now (22+3 and feeling like a whale). I even wrote him a house rules list a week ago 😂 In my 1st trimester, he would get defensive and aggy with me but he’s more understanding now. That first couple of months is tough 😅

Mine is getting up with our daughter and letting me sleep in, taking on some house jobs as we are very much a pink and blue job family normally, Making us tea and cleaning up, Making me toast in the morning if he’s got to leave early and I can’t sleep in cause of our Daughter being awake, going to the shops and getting food me food if I fancy something. But I was very poorly with HG in my first pregnancy so I think he’d do almost anything to make sure I don’t get like that again and we both know it’s only temporary and hopefully in a few weeks I’ll be able to do a little more ☺️☺️ xx

He doesn’t help me. He is the father of my child, so he has responsabilities as well 🤷🏼‍♀️

We are technically long distance because I’m working 500 miles away, but he does everything he can. Checking in daily multiple times on how I’m feeling, FaceTimes for all of my appointments, he talks to my boys constantly about how to help/stay off my nerves (teenagers 😆🤣), sends money/food via DoorDash. Last weekend I was absolutely exhausted and he played Fortnite online with the boys all afternoon so I could sleep. For what he can do from a distance I’m pretty happy. I’ll get to see him for the first time since we got our BFP in a couple weeks and I can’t wait 🥹

I found it helpful to read pregnancy symptoms together weekly. So much changes every week and it was a good reminder for both of us that what was going on inside my body was a big deal and very difficult but also completely normal and temporary. I think hearing the symptoms also helped us organize in our brains ways he could fill in the gaps where I was lacking. Like nausea- ok I need easy to eat food and sometimes I will not want what he makes and that’s okay. Or fatigue- ok I need to take a nap so don’t interrupt from time to this time. Etc

My Fiance has been really helpful. I had a hard time with nausea and exhaustion, but thankfully found some relief these days. He cooks, cleans, does the laundry, takes care of our son, encourages/ reminds me to do self-care, rubs my back, comes to my appointments, asks me how im feeling or about my needs

My fiance was amazing I won't lie. My ex however was not 😅. You know you're having mood swings though, so with kindness you need to recognise this and not take it out on him. As being pregnant isn't an excuse to be a dick unfortunately!

My husband has been great. He takes on any daily chores I can’t complete because I’ve been so sick. Gets or makes me whatever I’m craving, has been doing most of the grocery shopping and even made me a meal plan so I can stay on top of my macros and don’t have to think as much about what to eat when I feel bad and just need to eat anything. I still cook us both breakfast and lunch everyday and some dinners depending on how I’m feeling. He knows I’m feeling pretty rough every day and always thanks me for the bodily sacrifice I’m making to bring our son into the world. I will say though that I definitely had to ask for what I need early on- we have ongoing conversations about symptoms and he asks how I’m feeling a lot, so he knows when I’m having a good day vs a bad day. He’s definitely not a mind reader but he’s been really wonderful in picking up some of the slack. I think these conversations are super important to have early on, cause they aren’t gonna stop when the baby is born.