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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 343975" data-attributes="member: 27">About twenty/thirty years ago, young couples started saying &quot;we&quot; are pregnant.&nbsp; It&#039;s become pretty normal to refer to it that way now---frankly I&#039;m kind of surprised you haven&#039;t heard this before.&nbsp; An American thing?&nbsp; I guess it&#039;s an effort to have men take more of a role in the whole pregnancy/labor/child-rearing exercise, since some guys might try to shirk responsibilities like 3am feedings, diaper changes, etc. and leave all the drudgery to the woman. I&#039;m sure there are some men who look at it the other way---that they&#039;re &quot;left out&quot; of the process in a lot of ways, since the woman gets to do all this bonding with the baby in-utero, while he just watches from afar.&nbsp;&nbsp; Obviously she has to carry the baby and go through labor and all the heavy-lifting, but this whole &quot;we&#039;re pregnant!&quot; thing seems to be an effort to involve the man more in the process---whether he wants it or not!&nbsp; I have to confess I did not see the final episodes of Who&#039;s the Boss? due to an unfavorable time slot change. ABC showed their supreme ungratefulness to long-running shows like WTB in that period by &quot;putting them out to pasture&quot;---by moving the shows to Saturday night slots to die quietly.&nbsp; Granted, the show had a good run and the cast were likely ready to move on, but the show had made tons of money for ABC during its run. They deserved better treatment, and frankly so did its fans.&nbsp; So when WTB was shifted to Saturday I didn&#039;t see any of those episodes for one reason or another...and then they were gone.&nbsp; I seem to recall a closing scene where Angela answered the door with her hair in a towel (like the pilot scene) with Tony there....but I cannot remember what the context was.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 343975, member: 27"] About twenty/thirty years ago, young couples started saying "we" are pregnant. It's become pretty normal to refer to it that way now---frankly I'm kind of surprised you haven't heard this before. An American thing? I guess it's an effort to have men take more of a role in the whole pregnancy/labor/child-rearing exercise, since some guys might try to shirk responsibilities like 3am feedings, diaper changes, etc. and leave all the drudgery to the woman. I'm sure there are some men who look at it the other way---that they're "left out" of the process in a lot of ways, since the woman gets to do all this bonding with the baby in-utero, while he just watches from afar. Obviously she has to carry the baby and go through labor and all the heavy-lifting, but this whole "we're pregnant!" thing seems to be an effort to involve the man more in the process---whether he wants it or not! I have to confess I did not see the final episodes of [I]Who's the Boss?[/I] due to an unfavorable time slot change. ABC showed their supreme ungratefulness to long-running shows like WTB in that period by "putting them out to pasture"---by moving the shows to Saturday night slots to die quietly. Granted, the show had a good run and the cast were likely ready to move on, but the show had made tons of money for ABC during its run. They deserved better treatment, and frankly so did its fans. So when WTB was shifted to Saturday I didn't see any of those episodes for one reason or another...and then they were gone. I seem to recall a closing scene where Angela answered the door with her hair in a towel (like the pilot scene) with Tony there....but I cannot remember what the context was. [/QUOTE]

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