Can you do headcanon for Norman Bates with a pregnant s/o? Thx xo
oooh my gosh oh my gosh *foams at the mouth from the mere thoughtā¢)
honestly heās so excited when you first tell him.Ā
heās a little worried at first, wondering if this sudden change in the life you share might strengthen the voice of mother that still lurks in the dark corners of his mind.Ā
he knows he can lean on you though and does so, voicing his concerns after he shows his initial excitement and support.Ā
if the two of you arenāt already married (highly unlikely because he is romantic and soft when he can allow himself to be) you will be getting married as soon as possible. you need to be married yesterday.Ā
would swoon if you would take his name or at least hyphen yours.Ā
he has daydreams about people coming to the motel and commenting on what a perfect, picturesque family the three of you make.Ā
the two of you running the motel while your child plays and laughs and smiles, well-behaved but brimming with the joy that comes with a childhood full of love.
you would think he would be worried about repeating the terrible childhood he lived through but he isnāt, not really.Ā
he knows that the two of you have all the love in the world to give to the child you two will have. knows that youāll be with him every step of the way, to guide him and help him along where he might stumble in ignorance or indecision.Ā
if nothing else he knows that you, the person he loves more than anything, will guarantee the child will have a wonderful life. youāre so full of love and good qualities. he knows youāll make an incredible parent, youāve already made such a wonderful partner. already made his life so much brighter.Ā
all this isnāt to say he intends to leave you with all the leg work of raising your child. heās going to be very involved (but will often worry about being stifling or foul-tempered like mother so often was.)Ā
he just takes comfort in knowing that no matter how bad he might turn out to be as a father (heāll do wonderfully), youāll more than make up for his shortcomings.Ā
but back to you being pregnant.Ā
he doesnāt want you to lift a finger! even before you start showing he starts to hover and fret over you.Ā
a few weeks after you found out you were pregnant you went into one of the motelās many rooms to clean and noticed a light-bulb blinking out. you climbed up onto the worldās lowest ladder but norman came looking for you at just the wrong time and nearly worked himself into hysterics about you being so high up!! where you could fall!! and hurt yourself!!!Ā
he freaks out so bad that it might make you cave to his gentle prodding and insistence that youĀ ājust sit down and restā long before you actually physically need to do so.
likes to help you out of chairs and couches and beds. if you are ever getting up he will manifest out of nowhere and delicately take one of your hands in his and have the other at your back.Ā
he starts to initiate touch with you more. before he would let you set the pace, or reach out for him. he loves you and is starved for affection but he was just a little hesitant to ever be the one to start it.Ā
afraid of being too much, too needy, too wanting. or, worse, not enough.
now he canāt keep his hands off you!! he is always pressing kisses to your cheeks, your forehead, your hands, even your belly when youāre alone or laying in bed at night.Ā
yes he cries the first time he feels the baby kick. for once heās not even embarrassed about being so emotional.Ā
he has an irrational fear that you could slip in the shower and die during the next nine months so please take baths or else you will find him hovering outside the bathroom door waiting to hear the slightest thump so he can spring into action!! he worries!!
heās worried for the baby too of course but for some reason he has the particular idea that your body has become more fragile. heās not just scared that youāre carrying a child and anything that happens to you can effect them, heās genuinely likeĀ āi think....pregnancy.... is ..riskyā
that being said he loves the changes your body goes through.
he thinks you look very endearing waddling around the motel. heās always smiling and happy whenever he catches a glimpse of you throughout the day. youāre so wonderful. youāre going to be a family of three soon.Ā
lowkey heās also like.... a little turned on because like ....youāre having his baby. youāre his spouse. but he feels like that might be wrong to feel? youāll probably be able to sense it though. heās not very subtle.
worried about hurting you or the baby during sex so heāll be even more gentle than usual. do not ask him to be rough!!Ā
if you get any kind of morning sickness he will feel so bad. whenever he goes into town for supplies and whatnot he talks to the local women and asks for cures. heās got a sweet, honest face so they always try their best to help give him quality advice.Ā
the man looks like heāll fall to pieces if you wake up sick and miserable one more time.
likes to rub your feet whenever they get sore, bloated or achy. he will rub them until his hands get sore and achy. you will never know because he will never tell you. he likes taking careĀ of you.Ā
one of the few slashers who would get up in the dead of night... and happily go and fetch you even the most ridiculous of cravings.Ā
you could tell him he canāt run the motel by himself and always be taking care of you but itās like he takes your words as a challenge because now heāll do both but even better than before.Ā
itās like he wants to prove he can take care of you and the baby no matter what he needs to do. reassure him before he passes out from exhaustion :(((
probably going to also be busy because he really will.....be completely redecorating the house.
he knows it might seem like bad or funny timing but norman wants a real fresh start. he doesnāt want his child to sleep in the same crib he used to sleep in. or stare at the same dull walls. or sit on the same furniture his mother used to. he feels her energy so deeply seeped into everything thatās currently in the house. it makes him uneasy!!
he strips it totally bare. he sells all the furniture to get new things and then dips a bit into the savings he hasnāt touched that heās built up throughout the years just for good measure. he repaints the walls. he makes it so homey and warm and so unlike the house he grew up in.Ā
he talks to you a lot and asks you a lot of questions. he wants it to be your dream-house as much as possible!! his only goal is for it to be a place you three will always be content to call home.
honestly going to panic a bit when your water breaks and probably brings you to the hospital long before youāve dilated but better early than late!
