I want to make an empathy belly

[BibiTwo]

Any ideas? I've been searching the net to see if I can hire one for dh but you can only buy them as part of a "comprehensive teaching package" for about £500 each!
In my last pregnancy I filled a hot water bottle and tied it to dh's belly with a sarong, but it kept slipping and he could bend over/get up etc easily, so I want to make something this time that will really show him how uncomfortable and hard being heavily pregnant is (as if my moods don't indicate that!)

ROFL!

Just get him a couple of bricks and stick them in a sling! If he still doesn't believe you that being heavily pregnant is no fun then chuck the bricks at him, he'll soon get the message!

I like it!!! Now how can I emulate piles and leakiy boobs?

LOL! I've always wanted to do this. One night, while trying to fall asleep, every time the baby kicked me, I poked dh really hard so it shocked him into waking up!

How are you going to manage giving him swollen ankles, thrush and constipation at the same time? And you would have to make him wee every two hours and puke up daily for three months.

I have seen those empathy bellies at Eureka in Halifax and at the Natural History Museum to try on. They have boobs too.

Oh he's going to hate this pregnancy, he got off so lightly last time!

Have got some suggestions about the piles...

Bibitwo I like your style!!

GG how did I never think of doing that before??! That's going to be so much fun

smother a cork in superglue, shove it where the sun dont shine, and ask him what it feels like a week later

Fill a dustbin bag with 2.5 stone of sand, and use wig glue to glue it to his tummy, so it pulls like a reall belly.

And didn't I see someone post recently about the tribe somewhere who ties string around the father-to-be's genitals so the labouring mother can pull hard on it every time she has a contraction? Gotta throw that one in for him.

Remember Des O'Connor wearing an Empathy belly on his talk show, and it contained a special lump exactly where the bladder is, so that it pressed hard against it periodically and I think he nearly wet his pants - he looked so shocked. Hysterical!

have you got a baby sling he could wear quite low down? if you fill it with something really heavy it should give him a good dose of back ache

Des O'Connor often nearly wet his pants, especially when Freddie Star was on

Fantastic Catbert, if I ever have another that's how I'm going to get through labour!

Do the proper empathy bellies give kicks? I was thinking last night, they could put a device in them like is inside those massage chairs where a mechanical arm or legs kicks out at certain intervals to give daddy a quick poke in the ribs!!

As I am now waking every hour during the night for a wee I told DH today that when he is home this weekend I would wake him up eveyr time the baby woke me up and get him to fetch me a drink. (so he has to actually get out of bed)

he laughed but I actually meant it!!!