My first trimester when I should have been doubled over sick and using every once of strength to elicit pity from the hubby...I felt great - I even lost weight because I just wasn't hungry. My second trimester when thing are getting more real and I am starting to show, my appetite is back and I have never felt better - not the best time to work on the pity angle. Now that I am huge as a house, ready to pop in the third trimester - I don't think that any attempt for pity will work - I have had it too good up until this point. Besides I think he secretly enjoys the grunts I make when I get out of a comfy chair.Actually - my better half has been great about our pregnancy. It has been fun to watch him move from careful, subdued enthusiam (we tried for a long time with no success) to excitement and involvement (he volunteered to wear the 'empathy belly' at Lamaze class).
While I know that part of me is going to miss being pregnant, watching him interact with his child is going to more than make up for it.