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Keep Mom-to-be Smiling!

10 Creative Ways to Pamper Your Pregnant Wife

By I.J. Schecter

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Keep Mom-to-be Smiling!-10 Creative Ways to Pamper Your Pregnant WifeYou've given her the shoulder massages and back rubs. You've bought her a cute pair of pajamas with a flexible waistband. You've taken her out to dinner half a dozen times. But it's only the fourth month and you feel like you're out of ideas. Take heart. There are plenty of fun, simple ways to keep your wife smiling from the first month to the last – and none of them have to break the bank!

1. Read to the Tummy and Its Owner
Over the course of the pregnancy it may become increasingly difficult for her to find a comfortable sleeping position. Buy an anthology of stories or poems, and read her something each night before bed. It will distract her from being uncomfortable and prepare you for becoming a nightly storyteller. Select your material logically. Amy Tan's latest is probably a good choice. Stephen King's is probably not.

2. Apply Some Pressure
Buy her a good professional shampoo and conditioner (this doesn't mean Pert Plus). Wait until she steps into the shower, and then join her. Shampoo her hair for her, making sure to include a long, luxurious temple massage. If you're not confident in your technique, get a massage with your next haircut and pay close attention. Your wife will be the beneficiary of your newfound skills.

3. Clean Up
Wait until she's out one afternoon, and give the house a serious once-over. This doesn't mean sweeping dirt into corner piles or wiping tables using the helicopter method you learned at camp. It means vacuuming along the edges, scouring the oven and, yes, mopping the floors. If you think this amounts to pampering the house instead of her, watch the reaction on her face.

4. A Little Pillow Talk Goes a Long Way
Pregnant women are advised to sleep on their sides. Many find it more comfortable while in this position to hold a pillow against their stomachs. Go out and buy her a nice down-filled pillow from a local department store (it shouldn't cost more than $50). Write "Pregnancy Sleep Aid" on the package, and leave it on the bed for her to find. Just understand that you'll have farther to reach in the spoon position.


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Re: 10 Creative Ways to Pamper Your Pregnant Wife by Kadri-Liis on 01/16/2010 05:12PM

Just NO. NO. N O. I would be incredibly uncomfortable and embarrassed for my husband if he did these things unless I was less than 5 years old which I'm not. Hope you guys out there have some critical thinking unlike the author of this article. Do stick with the basics, ESPECIALLY LOWER BACK MASSAGE, some maternity clothes that would make us preggos feel gorgeous, please help around the house more than you usually would, please ask and LISTEN how we're feeling, don't deprive us of good sex even when our tummies get huge, maybe get us a gift card for a day spa because towards the end it's hard for us to do our own pedicure, tell us how much you care and how much you'd like to meet with the baby, cut us some slack when we snap at you for no good reason - it's the hormones and this too will pass, show interest in getting and putting together baby gear, actually take a few weeks off when the baby arrives. That would at least make me feel loved and pampered, not some freaggin sock show and you getting your nails done at the spa :S

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