Pregnancy Guide for Partners and Dads-to-Be: The Nine Months You Are Also Living
A thirty-page companion written for the non-birthing partner during pregnancy. Trimester-by-trimester guidance on what's happening for your pregnant partner and how to be useful. Your own grief and fear page (partners are often quietly carrying both). Appointment-attendance role. Things to say and not say. A page on maintaining the relationship through the change. Crisis-line page for partner mental health, which is real and often overlooked.
Instant download. Print at home on A4 or US Letter. Your receipt and re-download link arrive by email.
Look inside
Pages from the file you'll download, not a mock-up.
You are not the one growing the baby. You are the one growing alongside, in your own way, with a different set of jobs.
The pregnant-person planning industry mostly talks past you. The friends mostly ask about your partner. The appointments are about her body. Your role is real, and your experience is real, and almost no one has written a playbook for you.
This is the playbook. What’s happening for your pregnant partner each trimester. How to be useful. Your own grief and fear that you may not have given language to yet. The appointments you should be at. The things to say. The things to not say. The relationship you are both inside, and how to keep it standing.
What’s inside
Thirty pages, fillable:
- A note before you start.
- “You are also doing something” framing.
- Trimester One for the partner (4 pages).
- Trimester Two for the partner (4 pages).
- Trimester Three for the partner (4 pages).
- Your own grief + fear page.
- Appointment-attendance role.
- Things to say + things NOT to say.
- “Your relationship is changing” maintenance page.
- Partner mental health page.
- A final letter.
Format
Instant-download PDF, US Letter + A4. Personal use only.
From Soothemade Notes, a small apothecary of printables, planners, and cards for the unphotographed parts of new parenthood. Made slowly, in plain language.
