My wife and I have a baby girl due on March the 12th. Season comes in on the 15th. Well, we went to the dr on Thursday and she is already having contractions, so he said we aint going to make it to Mar 12th. Well, this just tickled me to no end. She asked me why was I so happy. I told her the earlier she has the baby, the more time she'll have to heal before turkey season starts. Needless to say, that went over like a lead balloon. You know, she got real quiet then she got real loud. Am I being insensitive here? Or is she just over reacting? Sounds perfectly logical to me.

With age and experience, you will learn to keep some of life's little gifts of satisfaction to yourself. She will just never understand -- unless you get her hooked on turkey hunting, too.

My son was due last April and didn't come until May 7th

Many days I was hours away in the turkey woods with a cell phone.

You gotta do what you gotta do.

I guess I dont see that your really being insensitive but I can kinda see how she might get a little upset.

lol ha ha ha!!! Congrats on the soon to be baby.

Sometimes women just don't understand. I am lucky in that area as my wife is very supportive of my hunting. Our little girl was born on April 12th at about 1:30 A.M., not only was I out turkey hunting less than four hours later it was my wifes idea that I go.[8D]

My son was born november ,19 9 yrs ago. Right in the middle pf the best part of hunting season, It was a friday night or early sat morning which ever? But after he was born about 3.30am My wife looked at me and sead are you happy? And i sead, you have made me the proudest man in the world I have a new baby boy, after a little while longer she sead you have been up most the night why don`t you try to get some rest. I sead instead do you mind if i were to go hunting for a few hours? I won`t be gone long. I think i could have sead any thing else but that! And every thing seemed to move it slow motion for a min, Thin she got very upset! [:@] I mean mad![:@] She still bring up that story to our freinds and family today and that was nine yrs ago. P.S just some words of wizdom for all the new dads. DON`T EVER DO THAT!

haha, got ya all beat! first, the girlfriend( or whatever she is this week, keeps changing her moods) is a cancer survivor, she is also an amputee from it. she had a hard time carring because of what the chemo did. got pregnant, due four years ago in nov. now, rifle hunting in VT is only for 16 days, 12 before thanksgiving, four after. had trouble carrying, spent much of the last two weeks of oct, rest of nov in hospital. oct is bow season, 9 days in dec is muzzleloader. needless to say, i didn't get out much, paid for it when i did, didn't get a deer. two years later, guess what happens, again? this time, he was born in dec, both kids right smack dab in the middle of the hunting seasons. no deer that year, either. wonder why. screw it, tell her she got herself into, she can finish the job by herself, lol. and then take cover!!

As long as she has everything she needs, then she shouldnt worry about it, maybe offer to take the baby off of her hands one day so she can do something she wants to do.....ya'll shouldnt be fighting over the baby and who has to take care of it, you both made it, you both take care of it....the baby comes first, but that is no reason to put your life on hold....hope things work out for ya's......

Just the beginning GB!!Wait till the youngins born and the lad aint even out of diapers yet and you want to takem to the woods!!Like I said just the beginning!!Things change when the kids come!!But its all good!!!