In the original audio of the video the pregnant woman slaps the husband after he says this. It's a joke about how during labor there's alot of high emotions and stress that the mother to be is experiencing and how such a situation can be awkward for the nurses in the room to be involved in.
That was the first thing I thought it was and then I read all the strange comments. It does happen. I was also hit, though not very hard, on the arm, when I was trying to be supportive, but got on my wife nerves during child birth. It is an emotional and stressful situation for both, but especially for the mother and not to forget painful for her. It‘s just nothing to be cross about either. It happens. Though I did comment on it afterwards and overacted that I was in disbelief that she hit me, but it was just in good fun. For the next child birth I knew what not to say or to stay out of reach. Just kidding, but I knew what commentary during child birth was less helpful and avoided it the next time. And I did not get hit again.
But the slew of comments about fathers being absent during child birth was crazy. I just hope it‘s the typical Reddit exaggeration, though there’s maybe a kernel of truth in some of them.
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u/darubus Apr 24 '26
In the original audio of the video the pregnant woman slaps the husband after he says this. It's a joke about how during labor there's alot of high emotions and stress that the mother to be is experiencing and how such a situation can be awkward for the nurses in the room to be involved in.