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"In our second installment of Ask the Guy with the Bag Over His Head, Joanna has a few things she&amp;#x27;s dying to know about... babiesJoanna: So, Married Jake, I&amp;#x27;d love to ask you a couple questions. As you may know, I can&amp;#x27;t wait to have babies (lots of them), and I know you&amp;#x27;re a new dad (congratulations!). So I&amp;#x27;m curious about a few things... 1) When your wife was pregnant, were you worried that your wife might ignore you after the baby arrived? (I worry that that is my husband&amp;#x27;s fear.) Married Jake: That&amp;#x27;s a concern for men, for sure. People told me that you become the family dog once the baby arrives. I.e. the last priority. Like: you get the scraps, instead of being cooked for. But Blossoms has always been great at making me feel important, like my every thought and action was important. JG: That&amp;#x27;s really sweet. So I guess I should just pay special attention to always make my husband feel very included. (By the way, now that we&amp;#x27;re married, I can&amp;#x27;t stop saying &amp;quot;my husband.&amp;quot;) Does she still cook for you? :) MJ: Let me say one more thing about that. Once Lil Blossoms arrived, I never felt the need to be the first priority, or even the second. And to be honest, Blossoms never really cooked! (That&amp;#x27;s what I&amp;#x27;ve done more of than anything since the baby came. Cooked and cooked and cooked. Makes me feel useful, since I can&amp;#x27;t breastfeed or anything) JG: Haha. We should exchange recipes sometime :) Here&amp;#x27;s my next question: I&amp;#x27;ve heard about &amp;quot;couvade,&amp;quot; which is when fathers-to-be experience some pregnancy symptoms, like fatigue or weight gain! It&amp;#x27;s also called &amp;quot;sympathy pregnancy,&amp;quot; which, I have to admit, seems totally cute. Did you experience that? MJ: I wouldn&amp;#x27;t say I got sympathy pregnancy symptons. I&amp;#x27;d say I got fat You&amp;#x27;re so tired at the end of the day, once the baby is sleeping, that all you want to do is drink a beer or two and eat whatever food makes you happy. Like a pizza every night. And maybe a pint of coffee ice cream. Or &amp;#x27;Chubby Hubby&amp;#x27; would be appropriate One other warning: it&amp;#x27;s impossible to exercise when you&amp;#x27;re a new parent. JG: Ok, my next question: So, I have all these daydreams about being a parent. What surprised you about being a parent? MJ: The intensity. It&amp;#x27;s incredibly intense. Everything is heightened. It&amp;#x27;s like you&amp;#x27;re doing some powerful drug. JG: How exciting! And probably exhausting. MJ: The other thing that surprised me: I have never gotten tired of it, or sick of it, for even a second JG: Oh, so sweet. OK. One more. New parents always say, &amp;quot;I never have time to take a shower,&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ll never read a novel again.&amp;quot; Do you feel like that? (I&amp;#x27;m always like, really? one shower?) MJ: No, I don&amp;#x27;t. I believe you can live the life you want to live. That said, I haven&amp;#x27;t been reading nearly as much as I used to. I miss that The other surprising thing: I WANT TO TALK ABOUT MY BABY ALL THE TIME. TO EVERYONE. JG: That is so cute! Have you ever babbled on to a boss or dry cleaner or someone kind of inappropriate? :) MJ: Yep. So many times a little voice has said, &amp;#x27;This is not interesting to other people.&amp;#x27; But then this other voice says, &amp;#x27;Of course it is! Your baby&amp;#x27;s poops are the most fascinating things in the world!&amp;quot; JGL Also, I LOVE going to restaurants for dinner (like everyone else in the world). Now that you have a little babe, do you ever take her to dinner with you? Can you tell when she&amp;#x27;s going to be quiet/sleeping? Or is eating dinner out a total crap shoot? MJ: First, I actually find I don&amp;#x27;t want to go out for dinner as much. Second is that we did a schedule with her, so we pretty much know exactly when she&amp;#x27;ll be sleeping and/or up and ready to go. Which is fantastic. Except that she goes to sleep at 7. JG: Early bird specials! Thanks, Jake. I&amp;#x27;m so excited! It&amp;#x27;s really fun to hear the inside scoop on new parenthood. I can&amp;#x27;t wait (and am fine with skipping dinners:). Anything else you&amp;#x27;d like to add? MJ: Last thing: YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE IT. really. love. Photo: Jupiter Images More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering for or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow us on Twitter!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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