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Congrats! Good on the familia being supportive, tell them to remember that support when you and babymamma need a day or two off. The most important thing family can remember is that the baby is family too and they need to help out as well. It really does take a village.

The 'I have no idea' part will go away very quickly. Smoke all you want as long as your lady doesn't mind. From personal experience, her smoking is acceptable as long as its for the right reasons. Our last baby (17 now) kicked the shit out of my wife during her first trimester, we were in the emergency room so often the nurses knew me by name and just pointed us to a room when we walked in. She couldn't even keep water down and nothing they gave her helped, compozine suppositories made her throw up and thats coming in from the wrong end! One of the pediatric ICU nurses asked G on the d/l if she smoked pot or knew anyone who did, she said yeah she might and the nurse told her that next time she felt nauseated to try a hit or two and see if that helped the situation, she told her not to power hit a three paper doob to her head because thats no good but a toke or two might help tremendously, which it did. G had a total of maybe eight hits over the next month and nothing else until after the boy was born, we didn't go back to the hospital until delivery day.

8 months to prepare...

I had 23 years to prepare and that didn't help, I been a father for 19 years and couldn't tell you a thing about raising them, not that I wasn't there or anything like that its just that people are vastly different and you never know what you're gonna get.

Good luck my good friend, you have the right attitude, you'll do fine!

Hug the little woman for me and remember, theres going to be some times in the next eight months when you'll have no idea who this woman is, its not just her you know. Breathe deep, think everything through and be patient, you'll be fine.

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