And not expecting it to be “all about me.”

This is a big change we’re adjusting to, a big change I am a bit more excited about than he is. One of his fears is that he’s somehow expendable in this process, that his part in it is done and now it will just be all the women (and eventually the baby) in the red tent and he’ll be shut out. We need to nip that fear in the bud: both by keeping him in the emotional intimacy loop, and also by keeping him involved in the babymaking process all along, leaning on him, and helping him to see that I couldn’t do this without him!