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To Dads: Appreciate Your Wife—The Great Goddess of Creation
Can you imagine how embarrassed you would be if your “bag of

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waters” broke open in the middle of a business meeting? While a
new dad has spent the past nine months going about his life in a
fairly normal way, his wife has been stretched in a surreal kind of
mind-body “taffy pull.” Let’s face it, any guy who has watched his
wife give birth knows the real truth about who the weaker sex is.
Mothers are great heroes! When it comes to making babies, we
men chip in a sperm while our wives essentially pull a dog sled from
Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico. In fact, except for your 23
chromosomes, every single molecule of your baby was individually
carried to her through your wife’s body. It’s almost as if each cell
should carry a little tag that reads, Inspected by Mom.
And, after your child is born, your wife has another awesome
responsibility on her shoulders. While you get to go to work, she’s at
home dealing with leaking breasts, sore nipples, an extra thirty
pounds, and a frantic, red-faced person yelling at her—all after little
or no training.
And then there’s sex (or no sex)! You may be interested in having
sex after abstaining for the last part of the pregnancy, but for many
new moms, sex is the last thing on their mind. Women often have
“pelvic exhaustion” after the delivery, and although your wife may
look like she had a “boob job,” she may not feel very erotic.
(Remember those are really for the baby now.)

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What should you do? Rethink your priorities. Remember, no one
on his deathbed ever said, “My only regret is that I didn’t spend
more time at the office.” Now is the time your wife needs your
attention, support, and tenderness the most. (It’s no accident
researchers find the best predictor of breast-feeding success to be
the spouse’s support.) Bring home flowers, change some diapers,
and give her a break to go out with friends—now, that’s the type of
“child support” she needs!
Another way to really help your wife is to take over the job of
calming your baby. Men are superb at soothing babies when they
learn the Cuddle Cure. Frank, a construction worker and father of
colicky two-month-old Angela, said, “I love being able to soothe my
screaming baby in seconds.”