One Night Stand Pregnancy Chances

GUY: I can only remember telling other men, because Gina told the women. But the men generally fell into two camps. Either they were not fathers themselves, in which case it was like telling that you had been posted to the Ukraine for 18 years, and you got this pitying look of bereavement in their eyes, as though they would never see you again. Or if they were fathers, it was like, 'Aha! Welcome to the Ukraine!'

One Night Stand Pregnancy Chances

DUNCAN: I didn't like having to tell people I was going to be a father, l felt constrained by it. Suddenly, from being in a relationship but otherwise a single guy living your life, to being a father... You become labelled as something else: a parent, rather than a young man. I found that quite difficult. But I don't think people necessarily expected me to be thrilled by it, so I didn't feel that pressure. I think people realized it was a new thing, it was going to be a new experience, so therefore I would have to find my way through it. It wasn't necessarily going to be joyous news for me. And obviously Dinah was disappointed with that.
 
But it is worth telling people, and here's why. The more people congratulate you, the more delighted they seem to be by your news, the more you will enjoy being congratulated and delighting people and generally spreading sweetness and light. You might even begin to think that it isn't perhaps such bad news after all. Amazingly, the pleasure of others can help reconcile you to your own impending parenthood. (It works for the mother, too.) Soon you will find yourself looking forward to telling people, for it is in man's nature to show off. You may even begin to enhance the whole tale with creative little additions of your own. Within weeks the gravest calamity of your adult life will have been magically transformed into a really good anecdote.

Call it a coping strategy if you wish. But all fathers-to-be gild the lily in one direction or another. Which direction you go in is up to you. If you and your partner have been trying to make a baby for a while, this can be effortlessly transformed into a story of constant and unbridled sexual activity, of sore thighs, cramp and mysterious groin injuries, and of precisely timetabled shags to coincide with ovulation. You can portray yourself as the plucky sexual foot soldier, willing at a moment's notice to go over the top with your bayonet screwed on. 

Obviously you have no screaming need to make babies yourself, but you respect your partner's dedication to the cause, which shouldn't be mistaken for desperation, good Lord no. Not that there was anything wrong with your sperm, we should emphasize. It was just a case of anxiety, of trying too hard. And if it required endless sex to cure the problem, that's just the way it had to be. (Note: This is a sitcom scenario, and your male friends are unlikely to believe a word of it. But that doesn't mean they won't want to believe it, as they may be hoping it will happen to them some day. Lay it on thick. Limp a little if necessary.)
 

Option Two, which tends to be favoured by anyone who can do Roger Moore eyebrows, is the Single Fuck Scenario. Yes, it took only once. Normally we use seven forms of contraceptive, including a full all-over-body condom, and only ever touch each other on the elbows. But just this once we got a bit drunk and one thing led to another and bingo! She's pregnant. Pause for dramatic effect. Eyebrows. (Your friends won't believe a word of this one either, but they will notice the awed response you seem to get, and will be remembering everything you say to use it one day themselves.) To find out more, you can check out One Night Stand Pregnancy Chances.