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  • The "Sweetest Day" for Couples

    Help "Sweetest Day" -- a celebration of friendship, romance, and love of family -- leap out of the shadows of its "relatives" and stand on its own with these romance-enhancing ideas!

  • Family Photos: What Do They Tell Us About Relationship After Kids?

    While looking for photos I found picture after picture of couples separated by children, gazing at the camera, or looking at or embracing kids, with no visible bond with each other. I believe these images tell a compelling story about the tangible impact of kids on our romantic relationships, and on parents' expressions of romance and love after our babies arrive.

  • How Do We Stop Our Inner Critics From Dating Our Spouses?

    If our Inner Critic tries to co-parent with our spouse's inner critic, it's a recipe for relationship conflict, not to mention icky parenting. Why? Because saboteurs talk in absolutes, prohibitions, commands and insults.

  • What's Your Secret Handshake? Staying Connected After We Have Kids

    Could interactional synchrony be a way for us to reconnect with our spouses when the stresses of co-parenting, of work, of daily life wrench us apart? Give it a try with your own secret handshake.

  • Growing into Fatherhood

    Here's a list of some of the positive attributes you'll need as a father which you can intentionally begin to grow during pregnancy alongside all the growth happening to your baby and its mother:

  • Resolving Quarrels

    Disagreements and grievances are normal in any relationship, whether it's between a mom and dad, or between two nations or peoples. All too often, though, they get out of hand, leading to hurt feelings, anger, and lashing out. Your best chance of resolving a quarrel is to do the four things below, even if you just do them yourself.

  • Pregnancy - His Second Trimester Worries

    The second trimester brings a bump and a few other telling signs that you are carrying a real person. It's starting to hit home with your guy that he really is going to be a dad. Is he mature enough to be a parent? How will your relationship hold up? Will he ever have sex again? This is what he may be worried about for the coming months.

  • Convincing Your Man to Get a Sperm Test

    Return to "The Pregnancy Partners: Blokes, Babies and You"

     

    QUESTION

    How do I break it to him that he needs to get his sperm tested?
    Sarah

  • Pregnancy Partnership: The Testing Dilemma

    Should he be there when you test? It all depends on your expectations. He is not apt to be as elated if it's positive or as sad if it is negative. On the other hand, if he's been excited about the whole babymaking thing...

  • Romantic Date Ideas during Pregnancy

    This may be one of your last chances to spend a romantic evening with your significant other before you have your blessed baby. Here are some ideas to make this a date to remember by showing your partner just how much you care.

  • Excluded by the O.B.

    I'm really excited about my wife's pregnancy and started to go to the doctor's appointments with her. But the doctor basically ignores me or gives me a silly looking smile. I want to stay involved but I'm getting really angry. Is there anything else I can do?

  • Romantic Date Ideas during Pregnancy

    This may be one of your last chances to spend a romantic evening with your significant other before you have your blessed baby. Here are some ideas to make this a date to remember by showing your partner just how much you care.

  • When Parents Disagree on Discipline

    Do you and your partner disagree on discipline? You should try to get on the same page. That's the best way to stop arguing with your kids as witnesses. Here are some strategies that can be helpful.

  • Convincing Your Man to Get a Sperm Test

    Return to "The Pregnancy Partners: Blokes, Babies and You"

     

    QUESTION

    How do I break it to him that he needs to get his sperm tested?
    Sarah

  • Tristine's Triumph -- Entry Three

    I could not keep the news to myself for long. I had to tell my husband. He deserves to know and I want him to go to my appointments with me.

  • Pregnancy - His Second Trimester Worries

    The second trimester brings a bump and a few other telling signs that you are carrying a real person. It's starting to hit home with your guy that he really is going to be a dad. Is he mature enough to be a parent? How will your relationship hold up? Will he ever have sex again? This is what he may be worried about for the coming months.

  • Tristine's Triumph -- Entry One

    It sure is a good day for my husband to get called into work. As soon as he goes to work this morning, I must run to the drug store and pick up an el-cheapo brand home pregnancy test.

  • Get Your Marriage Ready for the Baby Bomb!

    It's been said that having a baby is like throwing a hand grenade into a marriage. A hand grenade? Why the violent metaphor for such a precious, peaceful little thing? They're so beautiful. They're so lovable. How can anyone defame such a cutie?

  • Can We Know the Sex Before Deployment?

    QUESTION

    Dear Ms Ultrasound,
    I am an expecting mother. I am about 5 weeks along and my husband is getting deployed in January between the 12th and the 15th. I would really like to find out what we are going to be having but I'm not sure how far along I have to be for it and if I will be that far along at the right time. My first day of my last menstrual cycle was September 15th. Can you possibly give me an idea of if I will be able to do this with my husband still here. My estimated due date is June 21st- 24th.

    Thank you,
    mikki_blue

  • Resolving Quarrels

    Disagreements and grievances are normal in any relationship, whether it's between a mom and dad, or between two nations or peoples. All too often, though, they get out of hand, leading to hurt feelings, anger, and lashing out. Your best chance of resolving a quarrel is to do the four things below, even if you just do them yourself.