“But even when I put my hand on my wife’s bump and feel something, someone, a little bit of me shifts and wiggles and kicks, because now it’s all just magic.”

He knew that “exhaustion and exasperation” lay ahead.

“But I also know that the magic will only intensify. A new baby. A new generation. A new life. And the feeling that mine will change forever.”

Tame, who recently returned to New Zealand after covering the US election and then Apec in Peru, and Moayyed quietly tied the knot at home in Auckland in May last year, before celebrating their love with an intimate wedding on Waiheke Island in February.

Friends and family at the vineyard ceremony in Mudbrick included Moayyed’s son Rumi, then 6, and broadcasting alumni including Miriama Kamo, Mark Crysell and Matty McLean.

He first guessed Moayyed was pregnant after noticing her thirst – and what it was, Tame told listeners this morning.

“In the years I have known my wife, I cannot think of a time when she has voluntarily consumed a glass of water … and yet here she was, all of a sudden, gulping back glass after glass of the good stuff.

“‘You’re pregnant,'” I said.”

After that, it was time to say no to dessert.

“One of my wife’s best qualities is that she never says no to dessert. And yet… no.

“‘You’re pregnant,’ I said.”

It was amazing “how much a line on a stick can change your life”.

“When I was younger, I didn’t really realize that sometimes life doesn’t go the way you expect it to. I have a lot of friends for whom getting pregnant and having a baby has been nothing like our experience so far…I feel like lucky, in that sense.”

He had learned a lot about his wife in the past six months, Tame said.

“She is tough. Arrested at the traffic lights one minute, and going about their day the next.”

He had also found himself thinking about his own parents.

“I’m one of four. Four! And my parents got no help. I can already see why people rank raising children as their greatest achievement.

“While I understand it all in a theoretical sense, I’m not sure the full weight of impending fatherhood has sunk in yet, or will until our child is born.”

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