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.
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.
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u/LesserKnownFoes Apr 24 '26
Wait. This is common? I was there for every second of my child’s birth.