Any male who would abandon their spouse at a time when the stakes are so high cannot call himself a man. And the stakes are always high. It is a frightening, painful process.
If you think you're man enough to be there during the fun part, be man enough to be there for the scary part unless your wife somehow insists you not be there, or you just can't - deployed, for example.
It isn't about the husband - it is about the wife.
Guy sounds a bit weak
Oh bullshit
I’ve seen 3 vaginals and 2 caesarean*
Women worry it’ll ruin the mystique of the coochie for hubby to see the tearing and blood and poop and afterbirth
Lol....did not reduce my desire for my woman by even one molecule to this very day
Silly girls.
Women...sex...kids....looking back ...everything else is crumbs
And I led that big life frustrated folks write about.....pales next to what a super hot southern belle who loves being a woman...a wife and a mom brings to the table
So hell yes...get yer sorry horndog ass in there.....yes...you really did do this to her......she will remind you trust me.....hold her hand....support her ....insist they keep her block well dosed....tell her you love her....but don’t drone on obnoxiously
And joke about frying the placenta like hippies with the OB...while mommy is screaming and pushing...lol
* I never knew livers looked like big flat eggplants
.helluva man...
Southern girls of a certain station actually wear makeup to delivery and have their hair done....and take fashionable PJs and gowns...lol...when I protested as Wifey prepared before heading to hospital she and my mom hissed at meike I was crazy to question such customs
Unfortunately, I was not permitted to be with my wife for the birth of our daughter. Here in India, husbands are not allowed in the room, particularly for Caesarean delivery. I had to stand outside, though I got to accompany my daughter back to the neonatal room.
I’m thinking they don’t allow the husband in here because a) there’s not a lot of education on what childbirth actually involves, and b) Indians tend to be very modest about their bodies. I can easily imagine a typical Indian husband assaulting the doctor for “taking liberties” with his wife (the doc has to put his hand into the vagina to assist with delivery, as I understand it), and maybe even thinking the doctor is injuring his wife; and it would only be worse for caesarean, where I can imagine a typical husband here might actually think his wife was being butchered and try to interfere with the surgery.
Guy sounds like a real wuss, I was there for my sons birth and felt the joy of it all was never so proud of my wife who did a splendid job of delivering both my son and daughter was there both times every Dad should be there.
This guy probably passes out when he sees a box of band-aids. For pete’s sake get a grip. It’s the birth of your child and new life. The gross part is some of those diapers . . . man, what little people can do!
The doc let my husband deliver our third.
Better to say that sissies don’t belong in the delivery room.
I sat and held my wife’s hand, listened to her, let her know that at her most vulnerable moment, I was there to ensure she would be OK. There was no one no one else that could have done that.
My husband watched all his children come into the world. He was fascinated by it. We had twins by natural birth, and I mean natural they came out so fast there was no time for meds. Then the last two came via C-section.
My hubs was there for both biological births and both adoptions. He was the first to hold all four of them. He is the Father....and he considered it both his responsibility and priviledge.
Our first daughter was born after a long night of labor that had started about one in the afternoon. After that night my daughter was born about 8 in the morning. Shortly after the clean up and the high fives, they brought her breakfast. Do you think anyone would have offered the dad a cup of coffee?
My wife still laughs at me for going put out because they wouldn’t feed me.
In the end feeling put out, unappreciated, exhausted, and hungry was good training to be a Dad for the past 25 years.
I think that it’s wonderful when the father is in the delivery room, but other members of the family? Not so much. I’ve heard of mothers in law demanding to be there. I can’t imagine that.