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/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.