Should husbands make a lifestyle change too during pregnancy?
Well, you have to be healthy for the baby since you are the one carrying her. You shouldn’t drink or smoke at all. I wouldn’t envy your husband for being able to do that stuff. It’s no good for him anyway. However, I don’t think he needs to change because you’re pregnant. I think he should change if you want him to be different for your children rather than changing because you’re jealous. However, he is the way he is and you married him, so there’s probably no guarantee he will change at all. I don’t know you’re husband, but men tend to be stubborn. Good luck.
I agree with you. My husband would also still smoke and drink during my pregnancy. Not all the time and to be honest I didn’t completely quit smoking during my last pregnancy but I only smoked at home (not in public), 2-3/day compared to a pack a day as before. Anyways, I basically figured he can still go out once a week and have a few drinks now because after the baby came it’d quit. Well, it didn’t until 2 weeks later when I freaked out on him for coming home so drunk he could barely take care of our daughter and was lucky to be alive. He said it was very stressful on him and all his buddies bought him a drink for being a new dad….blah blah blah. It all ended up working out but he got a wake up call lol.
