Couvade Syndrome (aka sympathetic pregnancy)

"Many husbands are known to have some sympathy pains during their wives' pregnancies. I've heard of grown men turning into complete babies themselves because they are 'sick' or having 'pains,' and expect their ever-growing wives to forget their own aching feet and sleepless nights to take care of them. There are also fathers-to-be that don't experience the actual aches, but acquire a pregnancy-empathy of sorts. Their new sensitivity results in comfort, compassion, and understanding, rather than whining. Luckily for me, Ross has fallen into the later category.

Ross had his very own pregnancy dream a few nights ago. Ross's dreams are always a little more realistic than mine, though I'm not sure I'd want this one to be our reality.

His dream was that we were in the hospital. I had just delivered our babies. Yes... babies. Ross dreamt I delivered three healthy, and fully naked (unlike the babies I dream about) sons. All boys. Upon seeing all my sons I proclaimed, figuratively, that they were going to eat me alive.

All I can say is that I'm glad Ross had the dream, and that if I ever had triplet boys -- well, I may flip out at first -- but upon seeing them I'm sure I'd be the happiest mother around. (Since I'm not actually ever going to have triplet boys, I can truly believe that. Knock-on-wood)."
--Clare, 10/3/05