*Contains Mpreg elements...
A World of Pregnancy: Wes's Slow Embrace
My name's Wes. My girlfriend, Gretchen, had a baby about a month ago. I moved in with her a few weeks before she gave birth, and we're all doing really well. Now, she wants me to get pregnant. I'll be getting my synthetic uterus implanted next week, the embryo (from Gretchen's egg and my sperm) implanted into the uterus two weeks after that. Then I'll be a pregnant man...
I have mixed feelings about this, to be completely honest. To my pleasant surprise, I ended up really enjoying Gretchen's pregnancy, finding her swelling body pretty damn sexy. So I know I can find at least someone else's pregnant form attractive, though that doesn't necessarily guarantee I'll enjoy my own. I'm all for men getting pregnant; I think it's a great scientific achievement that it's become possible and a leveler of gender inequalities that everyone is now equally capable of gestating a child. Personally, though, I feel pretty weird about it. It's not something I ever envisioned for myself, of course, since it wasn't even possible until about a decade ago. I'm generally pretty secure in my manhood, I'd say, though becoming pregnant is still able to shake up my conception of myself quite a bit.
Moderate misgivings aside, I really do want to have a genetic baby of our own with Gretchen, and there's no rational reason why I can't be the one to carry this child. Gretchen wants me to, and I would do just about anything for her. So the adventure will begin shortly!
Month 1
Everything's gone smoothly. Uterus, embryo: both safely implanted. I am, officially, pregnant. And, I am in the midst of an identity crisis. I'm pregnant, I'm a man, and I can't seem to fully reconcile those two facts. Looking in the mirror and imagining my stomach swelling, I can't help but notice the penis directly beneath my abdomen. My chest, flat for my entire life to this point, is about to look much more feminine as my milk-providing breasts start to develop: it feels like an unexpected second puberty is coming my way. All these changes will give my body properties that, for the majority of my life, I've considered solely feminine. I don't feel more feminine or less masculine. But, I'm a pregnant man, so something different is going on with my body. My mind just doesn't feel prepared.
I'm not feeling pregnant yet, besides some mild fatigue that's developed in the last week or so. There should be a few more bodily changes/symptoms within the next few weeks. Maybe when I physically feel more pregnant my feelings about my identity and my body will become a little clearer? I'm sure hoping so.
Month 2
Morning sickness fucking sucks. It is far from limited to mornings, and it's making me puke at least half a dozen times per day. And when I'm not actively puking, I invariably feel like I need to. I've learned to keep a small, empty garbage receptacle next to me at all times so that I'm not kneeling at the toilet for 85% of my day. I've got a month or so left of my first trimester, after which the morning sickness is supposed to largely subside. Another fucking month. I want this shit to stop yesterday.
Also, I'm tired as hell. All the time. My body must be very busy on the inside, because on the outside pretty much all I do is suffer with the morning sickness and lay down. Yet I remain constantly on the cusp of falling asleep. What fun.
My breasts, though they've yet to swell, are extremely sore. I never had much feeling in my nipples before, but now they're painfully sensitive. The pain and sensitivity indicate coming changes in size and function, I know, but right now it's just another invisible source of discomfort. I'd kill for a physical indication of pregnancy at this point: I just want some sign that all this disruptively uncomfortable bullshit is leading toward something good. I'll be swollen in a bunch of places within a few weeks, I'm sure. And that'll probably suck in its own way.
As you could probably guess based on all this, I'm not feeling so sexy at the moment. Gretchen, though, is all sorts of turned on by my early pregnancy symptoms. She wants to fuck, and frequently. I really don't. I give in and let her do what she will with me once every couple days. She'd prefer four or five times per day, it seems. Multiple times each day she tries to come on to me, I rebuff her while fighting off nausea, and she storms off, refusing to talk to me for an hour or two. Yeah, being pregnant totally rules, great for our relationship thus far.
Month 3
Okay, I've finally got some rather positive signals of pregnancy now. My nipples/areolas have gotten several shades darker and my breasts are noticeably protruding. It's sort of hot, I have to admit. My waist has thickened, making me feel much more child-bearing in my stature. Swelling has come to my ass, as well, which is a nice shift for someone who's been rail thin his entire life: there's finally something to grab onto back there. Just below my navel, I can feel a firmness, the first hint of my uterus starting to expand. It may even be protruding ever so slightly, though that may be in my head or a function of having eaten shortly before looking at myself in the mirror. Morning sickness and fatigue have both subsided by at least 75%, so I'm able to get a decent amount of enjoyment from these sexier changes to my body. Sex with Gretchen is now frequent and pretty fucking great.
Doing some research to try to help me out of my poor spirits a few weeks ago, Gretchen discovered a local support group for pregnant men and/or those affected by pregnant men. I attend a meeting in a nearby Catholic church's basement. There are five other men in attendance, including the guy running the group. He and two of the other four are not visibly expecting; the other two look about 6 months and 8 months along, if I had to guess.