The Other Side of Delivery

My grandson arrived about a week ago. He’s cute, although in coming years he probably won’t want to be described that way. Kate’s doing well and Owen seems to be okay but he’s going to struggle with the affliction of all new dads – loosing the baby weight he put on during the pregnancy. It doesn’t seem fair. For everything else they go through, women loose a lot of weight they put on during the pregnancy just by doing the delivery. We guys put on weight, too. We do sympathy eating. The wife has a craving for something and we dig in as well. They want ice cream, we bring an extra bowl to share the experience. I could go on with food groups but you get the idea. They scarf something down and we do too then they deliver and we have something the size of a basketball hanging over our belts. It’s not a pretty sight and no one compliments us on our glow.