Like most couples – finding out you are pregnant can either be a joyous occasion or one filled with shock/sadness/guilt/shame and or resentment!

My wife and I have always been independent and even as a couple, so finding out she was pregnant was not only a shock but left her feeling like it wasn't quite the right time – like when ever is the right time! Of course her being 29 and myself 31 there was no doubt that we would have it but more of a case of coming to terms with the idea of being parent, for me it was a king of "we hadn’t planned for it and that’s the way life goes".

I couldn't wait – I was very excited, it was going to be all the things that we didn't know about and especially from my point of view I thought yay I’ve helped to make this little person that is coming into my life, she will change me and bring out the best and worst of me for as long as we are together.

Right from the day we found out – my wife was sick and it hasn’t been the easiest of pregnancies and with the thought of being unwell everyday and as well as hormones kicking in and the changing of her body, She got very stroppy and angry and I felt like it was pointed at me, I know now it wasn't but I was sure that my wife was turning into a gremlin, I know a few other new fathers who did feel like this also.

Toward the end she came to the thinking of that "compared to prison then child birth should be relatively straight forward"

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