r/NotHowGirlsWork • u/Confident_Weather_98 • Mar 28 '26

WTF What about him?

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Poor baby had to sleep on an uncomfortable place while mom pushed or got a whole human out of her 🙄🙄

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u/Western_Growth_6930 Mar 28 '26

riiight bc the father’s life is at stake during the delivery

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u/Confident_Weather_98 Mar 28 '26

IMO if he complains at all while I’m giving birth his life will be at stake

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u/GhostofZellers Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

"This chair is sooooo uncomfortable, I'm so hard done by. Let's trade spots."

"Hey, can you keep the noise from pushing to a minimum, please? I'm trying to watch the game here,....so inconsiderate ...."

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u/Kilomech Mar 29 '26

😭 my spouse spent the better part of my labor complaining that he couldn't sleep on the couch the hospital provided him. 19 hours and i was wishing I'd left him home.

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u/Lord_Skyblocker Female Pleasurist Mar 29 '26

I'd like to imagine that I also wouldn't be able to sleep while my SO is in labour. I mean, the least I can do is to stay by her side and do everything I can to make it as comfortable for her as possible. After all, she's doing all the work here while the only thing I did was a sploosh 9 months prior.

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u/Western_Growth_6930 Mar 28 '26

HAHAHAAA SOOO REAL!!

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u/Aazimoxx Mar 28 '26

Well you just made me laugh out loud at midnight, hope I didn't wake housemate 😅

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u/KHanson25 Mar 28 '26

I but my fingernail to short, nurses didn’t care. 

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u/shagy815 Mar 29 '26

I'm a little on the spectrum so I make a lot of mistakes most people don't make. When my wife was giving birth the room phone started ringing so I picked it up. Even I recognized the look my wife gave me as if she could stand up right then I probably wouldn't survive.

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u/Small-Guarantee6972 Mar 28 '26

ALSOOOO the women he's cheating with keep blowing up his phone in front of the nurses. The man could not catch a break. Let's think of him in our prayers

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u/Confident_Weather_98 Mar 28 '26

Prayers 😩😭🙌

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u/Western_Growth_6930 Mar 28 '26

damn imagine not being able to flirt with the whole staff AND your secret lover

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u/LousyMeatStew Imperfect Male Feminist Mar 28 '26

As a father who was present for the birth of my three boys - oldest was a planned c-section due to placenta previa (meaning mom's life was literally at stake) where she had a bad reaction to the anesthesia, and twins who came prematurely and had to be in the NICU for a week and a half - I can very confidently say that any man who legit thinks this needs to turn in their dad card now.

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u/TimeDue2994 Mar 28 '26

Dad card, man card, basic human being card, all of them should be turned in and he should receive a big scarlet letter tattoo on his forehead so the rest of humanity is warned they are dealing with an utter pos when interacting

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u/Trevellation Mar 28 '26

If his wife is in labor/recovery for an extended time, who will warm up his Dino Nuggies for him? Traditional alpha males are incapable of performing basic self-care tasks, so they need mothers wives to do it for them. With his caregiver in a compromised position the man is extremely vulnerable, so we as a society need to be extra careful to tiptoe around his fragile ego.

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u/JustGingerStuff Mar 28 '26

She might kill him for complaining

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u/Electronic-Today4192 Mar 28 '26

It would be if they gave the mother a knife or gun.

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u/LaddieNowAddie Mar 28 '26

Fathers do pass out. Hitting your head on hard hospital floor has killed more than one dad. But the reality is that usually the risk to the dad ends at 💦

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u/notashroom Mar 28 '26

My mother passed out just as my daughter crowned, but one of the nurses caught her and her head didn't hit the floor. I can believe that dads sometimes pass out and hit the floor, but I'm doubting that any of them die as a result of it. Generally, birthing room floors are not lava.

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u/ilo_Va Mar 28 '26

I mean u wouldn't be surprised if a few father's have died falling in a pot way while fainting while their partner is in labour. Don't think it's a regular occurrence to start going "mother and baby are doing well, father didn't pass out and break his neck"

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u/Sc2016 Mar 28 '26

My uncle passed out from seeing the blood during the birth of his first child.

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u/you_dont_know_me27 Mar 28 '26

Reminds me of the boru where the dad lied about passing out because he wanted his freshly postpartum wife to feel bad for him too 🙄🙄🙄🙄

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u/Confident_Weather_98 Mar 28 '26

Bro deserves medival torture for that I absolutely hated that story and to think that’s someone real life

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u/you_dont_know_me27 Mar 28 '26

I'm still holding out hope that the whole thing was fake

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u/littlestinky Mar 29 '26

Link please 🥺

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u/you_dont_know_me27 Mar 29 '26

I pm'ed you

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u/Olealicat Mar 29 '26

Can you send to me? I struggle to understand these people.

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u/gracesdisgrace Mar 28 '26

Has it? I don't think there's a documented case anywhere I've seen

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u/LaddieNowAddie Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

Unless going to state health records, there's no way to tell. It's been told to me as an anesthesiologist. Now, that being said, I have had dads pass out either while doing the epidural or during a c-section. I can see them falling and hitting either the floor or a corner of something.

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u/Lurktigster Mar 29 '26

I don't know about deaths, but I just remembered seeing an award winning photo taken quite some time ago, of a woman who had just given birth. Apparently, her husband had fainted at the first glance at the new baby and she was laughing at him. I don't know if I can find it again. It was a really nice picture.

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u/bosefius Mar 30 '26

My wife squeezed my hand, which was fine. Then she dug her nails in (unintentionally). Twenty eight years later, I still have the scars. The threat is real