I'm gonna guess that she's happily startled because, for example, mine hit his weed pen outside every 15 minutes and fell asleep on the couch and never once came near me. I think that my experience (or smth similar) is pretty common.
Edit: Hi, I'm an actually human person and was the first to comment on this. I'm not trying to start a damn war of the roses, and apparently this is NOT the correct answer (see the next comment below mine). Just popped in with my stupid, obviously incorrect thought about what this could mean. So chill with calling me a stupid whore.
Have you seen all the TikTok of guys bringing their gaming consoles to the birthing rooms? God forbid they try and be attentive to these women bearing their children. You can just see the divorce brewing .
Me and my husband brought a gaming console and played together during the first part of labor. 😄 it was an induction so we were prepared for it to take a long time. It was so nice to have something relaxing to do and just chill.
But the second my contractions started to become intense we stopped playing and his focus was 100 percent on me.
Yeah I feel like my partner would totally want her switch at least early on. She uses animal crossing to distract her when she's sick anyway so I figure the same principle might apply.
My husband and I brought my iPad, we watched a movie and took a nap because I had been contracting for 13 hours at that point and we didn't sleep all night. This of course was after I got the epidural.
That's what I thought they were all doing lol. Like, I'm gonna be there to support my wife or whatever but do you want me to just stare at a wall for 36 hours or whatever? I can keep myself occupied
We did the same. We were basically just sitting there for the first ~10 hours. We played shit on the laptop we brought and watched stuff on streaming. The serious part of the labor was like an hour and I tried to be as useful as I could be. So basically worthless, but offering morale support.
Incidentally, I will always remember that our son was born while the Beat Bobby Flay thanksgiving episode was on.
My partner had gull stones, we didn't know. I drove her to the hospital, advocated for her pain. Then followed an ambulance to another hospital where they could do the surgery in the morning, advocated for her their until they told me I had to leave the hospital. I slept in my car in the middle of winter in the parking lot, so I could be close if something happened.
Then after her surgery it was about a week later she was about an hour out of town and she had another episode just like before, but this wasn't supposed to happen because they removed her gull bladder. So now I'm by her bed advocating for her in this hospital for a day while they try to figure out what is wrong (turns out they spilled some stones and they where still in the duct/track or whatever. So she needed another surgery. That night I was told I couldn't be in the room with her overnight again, so back to my car I go. Then one of the nurses taps on my window and tells me I can stay in her room but need to leave when she tells me to in the morning and then come back during "visiting" hours.
Between her gull stones, the ectopic pregnancy, I couldn't imagine not being their advocating for her. Let alone on my Playstation, I was too busy up the nurses and doctors asses making sure her pain meds where given on schedule so she could actually sleep! I love men, but some of us are kinda fucking stupid and selfish. I don't want to think they don't care; maybe they just don't really know what to do in a situation like that?
I mean, my husband brought his switch. I was induced at 10 pm Sunday night and didn't start pushing until 6 pm Monday. He never left the room, but we had a lot of time to kill.
I read comics, watch tv, and video chatted with people while we waited.
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u/BeatnikBun Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26
I'm gonna guess that she's happily startled because, for example, mine hit his weed pen outside every 15 minutes and fell asleep on the couch and never once came near me. I think that my experience (or smth similar) is pretty common.
Edit: Hi, I'm an actually human person and was the first to comment on this. I'm not trying to start a damn war of the roses, and apparently this is NOT the correct answer (see the next comment below mine). Just popped in with my stupid, obviously incorrect thought about what this could mean. So chill with calling me a stupid whore.