Pregnancy is considered to be a period of radical changes in the lives and relationship of both people, as well as in their view of the world, around them. This is a kind of an examination, a testing for a family, they are checked for trust and understanding of each other. This period is also the time of many wishes’ restriction, the period of rebuilding of plans and it is also the period of reconsideration of the values. This period is considered to be critical from many points of view; however, there are no “critical” days during these nine months. And every woman is to understand, that if her husband or male partner is thinking about all these abovementioned things, (and he really does!), he simply can not feel so much joy and happiness (though it usually does not last long).

 What Might Be The Behavioral Reaction of a Future Father?
 There exist a lot of factors, which may influence the way your husband / male partner may behave, after he gets to know about his coming parenthood. These factors include:
  Your husband’s / partner’s individual qualities;
  The way his parents had been upbringing him;
  His attitude to his family and wife;
  His personal maturity and ability to realize and face life difficulties and new responsibility;
  Capacity for struggling with all these appearing life difficulties;
  A strong wish to accept his absolutely new role of a dad, a supporter, an educator, a defender and a bread – winner.

 It is considered to be extremely difficult for nearly every man to get turned to his woman’s waves of feeling and experiencing. May it is because woman are in constant unbreakable connection with their little ones, since the first days of pregnancy. The very realization of this gives every woman a unique possibility to get bunches of new and unusual feelings: a feeling of fullness, divine mercy, endless, etc. It is only a woman, who feels a new life moving and kicking INSIDE of her (though, fathers are able to feel it as well, but only OUTSIDE). Most men are simply get amazed and delighted, while they touching their wives’ “moving” bellies, others accept it quite calmly, like a mere physiological peculiarity, there are even men, who may envy a woman’s being able to give life to someone new, so much dear and beloved, to the closest little person, made of her (and his) own flesh and blood. And even after the process of delivery, this is the woman, who nurses this weak, tiny creature with her milk, it is her, who fills their baby with life and energy, and this little one grows, becomes more and more stronger, and in no time it turns into a real person. For many men there is something divine, supermysterious hidden behind all this. From one hand in some men it may create a feeling that a woman has the supreme power; from the other, men may begin to feel themselves as being unnecessary, unimportant and much imperfect. Sometimes either the wish to feel his power or the lack of attention from the side of his family may result into looking for some other way to compensate their loneliness. Some men may begin to work hard, or they may become thoroughly engrossed in their hobbies; while others may begin to feel excessive passion for women, friends’ companies, alcohol, etc.

 It may be natural for a man to think that loses is the only he faces with his wife’s pregnancy. Since that he begins to receive less attention from her, he may experience sexual hunger, because she is either unwilling to have sexual contacts with him or her doctor has forbidden her to do it. Moreover, here comes loss of freedom (“It is now, when I become bounded, what happened on our wedding day, was simply a children’s play” might be man’s considerations). Besides, here comes the time of different problems, uncertainty and anxiety for the nearest future.