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Relationships - The Expecting Father

Disclaimer: I wrote a series of articles for an online magazine called Cheers between 2004-2006, am putting them out here since I found them in Lockdown 2.0 Relationships - The Expecting Father ‎21 ‎February ‎2006, ‏‎01:31:24 With the coming of new life into a family there are many implications in a mans life too.  Not only the impact of the big responsibility coming his way its also a expression which lacks words.  Not because I am one of the expecting father but also of what I spoke with other wannabe and already fathers.  The importance of a pregnancy goes well towards the mother since she needs lots of attention.  But the fathers are normally sidelined specially in a country like India with the onslaught of functions, which follow from the time of confirmation of pregnancy. The expecting father has to go through the phase of recreating him self, starting from his childhood to his parent days.  Well there are millions of books and web pages about parenting bu...