Whats the nicest thing your DP/DH/OH has done for you while you've been pregnant?

[Chelle1986]

Mine would prob have to be that it was my birthday in early August, when I guess I would have been about 34 weeks and he got me the usual presents etc. But he had also got me a separate "Dear Mummy" card and present from the baby.

Card said something along the lines of "sorry I can't be there Mummy, but I'm not ready yet - so I asked Daddy to get you something from me" and the present was a teddy bear charm for my pandora bracelet. Needless to say I blubbed like a baby!

Thought this was a lovely thing to do.

xxx

when i was pg with DS1 it was my birthday and i was about 35 weeks , he booked me a day at a spa with treatments !!

Back massage in bed, every night without fail, for the last month, without asking, ever since he realised I wasnt sleeping very well.

when i told xp i was pg, he left me, that was the nicest thing he has ever done

(sorry, as you were)

Talking to my bump, and giving both me and bump a kiss goodbye in the morning before work.
Reassuring me that he thinks my bump is beautiful and making me feel sexy and attractive. Never mentioning that we've not had sex in months.

DH drove me from the door of our house to the door of my office for the last 2 months I was at work - this added an extra 30 minutes morning and night to his journey, involved sorting out the congestion charge and navigating traffic in the City of London to get to wait outside my office for me. And he got moved on by police if he waited more than 30 seconds outside the office.

Can't tell you how nice this was, being driven door to door in air conditioned luxury, rather than struggle on with the trains in the summer heat.

Decided he wanted to read a Beatrix Potter story to the baby every night, and ACTUALLY DID THIS.

He bought me all the Jonathin Creeks, and Doc Martin.

To keep me going through the boring stages and time off sick/maternity leave.

Proposed to me at the great pyramids in Egypt!

cooked dinner every day from 2 months onwards
did 99.99% of the laundry
back massage nearly every night
this on top of a 1.15 hour commute each way every day

But this is why you marry German men

Joined in any of the dietary restrictions I actually chose to abide by, e.g. alcohol. (So many dads-to-be get the unexpected bonus of never having to drive home at night while wifey is PG... grrr)

We did drink, but we'd have those individual wine bottles (one between us) with dinner. Or proper ale/stout from bottles - half a glass for me, rest of the bottle for him.

Of course, it meant that both of our tolerances for alcohol completely collapsed, but hey, makes for a cheap date!

Too much to mention, but the main ones are lifting me in and out of the bath towards the end (last couple of months) when my pelvis had given up the ghost.

Drying my legs for me after the bath so that I didn't have to struggle.

Taking extra care to avoid potholes when driving so as not to hurt me and also being extra careful when pushing my wheelchair.

Now we're going down that road again and so far he's being just as fab. I am a very lucky lady.

doing my shoe laces up.

taking the last week before induction off work/working from home so i wasn't stuck at home getting bored on my own.

DH has let me have an extra half hour in bed every morning while he gives the DCs their breakfast. I have been really tired during this pregnancy and the extra half an hour helps.

Shaving my legs and painting my toenails for me towards the end of both pregnancies when I could not reach and decided they had to be maintained in case I went into labour (as if I or anyone else would have cared mid contraction whether my nail varnish was chipped )

When I went into labour with DS1 at 28 weeks and I was transferred to the nearest cities' SCBU by ambulance he followed by car despite having knee surgery a couple of weeks prior. Not sure who was in more pain on that trip me or him!

My DH made me toast and brought it to me in bed practically every morning in the first trimester when I was as sick as a dog and he was worried about me not eating. That was sweet as he had to leave early and was really busy yet always managed to make the time.

Also he bought me an 18ct gold baby carriage charm to go on my charm bracelet and 18ct gold charms can be hard to find.

Not to mention back rubs when I am in pain and putting up with sleeping in the spare room when I tell him he takes up too much of our bed.

He's been pretty good generally apart from the odd blip.

I'm 16 weeks and like so many of you up several times in the night to go to the loo! There are steps down to our bathroom and when I got back from work last night DH had installed floor level lights so I don't trip on the steps in the dark. A small but much appreciated jesture!

Im soooo jealous of you ladies!! My dh cant be bothered (to say the least). 37 weeks now and Ive spent all this time waiting for him to do something special but NOTHING..ZIPPO..NADA!! He's just been his usual self:(

aww.. all those lovely gestures have nearly brought me to tears (dam hormones!!)

I suppose the nicest thing my OH has done is all the cleaning he's done for me these last few weeks even though I was on summer holidays and he was working 13 hours days.

But...

I think since I got pregnant he has just treated me like I'm his whole world. He makes extra time in his day to ask me how my day was and if I am feeling ok that day. He is genuinely interested in anything I have to say even if it is me telling him how many times I've been sick that day. This time I appreciate the most because I know it is not easy for him to give it because of how hard he works.

Letting me have lie-ins during the recent school holidays and getting up with DD. Luckily he works shifts so only has very early starts twice a week so I was getting 5 proper lie-ins. All changed now that DD has started school and I'm up at 7 if not before as she is a very early waker. He's not one for big romantic gestures but I was very grateful.

I was just about to say my DH pretty useless but then remembered he brings me breakfast in bed every morning before going to work (have to eat something before getting up or I feel sick) and gives lots of back massages. He's also done pretty much all of the cleaning of the house in the past 3 months (I'm only 16 weeks). Oh - and when I've had prescriptions I've felt to ill to collect, he's always gone to the chemist for me no matter what day/time :)

Since I got pregnant (I'm 32 weeks), my DP has given the Archangel Gabriel a run for his money.

Breakfast in bed every day that I haven't had to get up early for work.

Brings me a glass of orange juice with my iron tablet every day because it will help the iron absorption.

All cleaning, ironing, washing, cooking and food shopping. Including stocking up - at all times of day/night - on those strange quirky foods I seem to get a new craving for every few weeks.

Bought me a bath pillow and cushioned bath mat so I can relax better in my nightly bath.

Strokes and massages my back/bump/legs/hips every night.

We moved to a bigger house a few months ago and I didn't have to pack - or unpack - a thing; he did it ALL.

He's taking me away for a lovely birthday weekend which would normally necessitate a long drive - but he has forked out extra for a domestic flight for us so I don't have to sit in a car for several hours.

Utters the phrase "don't get up, I'll do it/get it" countless times a day.

He also tells me every day that I look absolutely beautiful, when I feel like a beached whale.

Basically, he's made being pregnant and 40 as easy for me as he possibly could. He's definitely earned his wings/halo, and I'd be lost without him.

Altogether now... "Ahhhhhhhhhhhh"

My DP has been absolutely lovely throughout - from manfully resisting swigging the bottle of Veuve Cliquot by himself that he'd bought for our first anniversary when I said, "Before you open that, I've got something to tell you.....", to proposing to me 2 months later (in front of my entire family), to continually telling me I'm beautiful and "not fat, you're pregnant" when I'm feeling like a large blancmange, to rubbing stretchmark cream into the bump without fail every night, to not complaining ONCE when I wake him up several times a night to go to the loo, to buying us a house to live in with his entire savings, to not complaining ONCE about my crazy and irrational hormonal moods, to understanding when I just need to have a cry for absolutely no reason.... Blimey, am feeling a little teary at the moment. Didn't mean to go on, but the man is a saint and I don't deserve him.

DH is wonderful. He tells me I'm coping well but I couldn't cope as well without him. He brings me breakfast nearly every morning, kisses both me and bump goodbye, is fascinated by everything going on even stretchmarks which he thinks are lovely, and never ceases to tell me how pretty he thinks I am. Oh, and building a stair rail as well.

Also, he never gets tired of me telling him when Small One kicks or rolls (am 25+5 today).

Am with you Dreemagurl. Better go text him.

Not sure if it's 'nice' but going from being terrified and not wanting the baby at all, to kissing the bump, and physically shaking at his desk when I had some bleeding (it was nothing, apparently) the other day and had to go to hospital.

Otherwise ... being incredibly supportive about my worries about being 'fat' and 'unsexy'.

Bringing me a piece of fruit every day at lunchtime (we work in the same office).

Putting up with my mood swings and demands, to the point of going up and down three flights of stairs four times in half an hour to get me: a) a jam sandwich, which I did not eat b) scrabble, which I then threw a fit at because I was losing c) wine, so I could have a sip and d) trivial persuit, which he played with me until midnight, even though he was exhausted.

He aint so bad ...

This is a lovely thread - maybe we should get our DPs to read it so they can see that they ARE appreciated :)