You love each other. You are somehow still getting this wrong.
Pregnancy changes a relationship. Both people know it is happening. Neither one quite knows how to name it.
Bump, Baby and Us is the honest guide for couples navigating pregnancy together. The emotional gap. The different experiences. The conversations that need to happen before the baby arrives. Written for both of you.
For the couple who are excited about the baby and increasingly distant from each other at the same time.
If This Is You
The feeling that brought you here is exactly right.
This guide was written for these specific experiences. Not the generic version. The real one.
One of you feels consumed by the pregnancy. The other feels peripheral to it.
This is one of the most consistently reported experiences in relationship research on pregnancy. It is not incompatibility. It is a predictable consequence of two fundamentally different relationships to the same event.
You are having the same argument on a loop without quite knowing what it is actually about.
It is almost always about feeling unseen or inadequate. This guide names what is underneath those arguments and gives you a different way in.
You are worried about what having a baby will do to your relationship.
Research shows relationship satisfaction drops significantly in the first year of parenthood. The couples who navigate it best have the specific conversations this guide is designed to start.
What’s Inside
30 pages. Every part covered.
A complete guide from beginning to end. Written with warmth. Grounded in research. Made for the real version of this experience.
The Emotional Gap
Why two people in the same pregnancy can feel completely different things, and why that is not a sign of incompatibility.
What She Is Carrying
Written for the partner. An honest account of the physical, psychological, and invisible labour of pregnancy.
What the Partner Is Carrying
Written for her. The helplessness, the fear, the peripheral feeling that partners rarely feel permitted to express.
The Conversations That Close the Gap
Four specific conversation frameworks including the weekly check-in, the fear conversation, and the expectation conversation.
Intimacy During Pregnancy
What changes, why it changes, and how to stay close when physical intimacy shifts.
Your Conversation Toolkit
Ten questions designed to be asked together, with space for both partners' answers.
You are not drifting apart. You are both trying to find your footing in completely new terrain. The first step is admitting that to each other.
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Who This Is For
Written for your specific experience.
The woman who is ready to stop feeling alone in this.
Whatever you are carrying right now, this guide was written by someone who understands that carrying it is hard. Not generic hard. Specifically, honestly, recognisably hard. And it was written for you.
The woman who wants information, not just reassurance.
Reassurance that everything will be fine is available everywhere. This guide gives you something more useful: an honest account of what is actually happening, and what you can actually do about it.
The woman who will come back to this more than once.
This guide is designed to be read at your own pace and returned to as things change. The reflection pages, the toolkits, and the resource signposting make it a working document, not just a one-time read.
The woman reading this anywhere in the world.
Every resource in this guide is internationally accessible. Every framework applies regardless of country, income, or circumstance. This guide was built for a global audience from the first page.
Common Questions
Everything you need to know.
Should both of us read this?
Yes. This guide is designed to be read by both partners. The dual reflection pages at the end of each chapter have separate prompts for each person. The conversation toolkit is designed to be done together.
We are not in conflict. Is this still relevant?
Completely. This guide is not only for couples in difficulty. It is for any couple who wants to arrive at parenthood with strong communication, shared expectations, and a real plan for the early weeks.
Is this relevant for same-sex couples?
Yes. The guide uses she for the person who carried the baby and they or partner for the second parent throughout. All content is fully applicable regardless of relationship structure.
What if my partner will not read it?
The chapters about what the partner is carrying, and what she is carrying, are specifically written to help each person understand the other's experience. Reading those two chapters alone and sharing what resonated is a meaningful starting point.
Ebook 03 · Relationships and Partnership
Bump, Baby and Us
The Couple’s Complete Guide to Staying Close
Bump, Baby and Us is the honest guide for couples navigating pregnancy together. The emotional gap. The different experiences. The conversations that need to happen before the baby arrives. Written for both of you.
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