Parenting

<h2>&quot;Did you try asking the baby politely to please come out?&quot;--giving birth is not a task for the weak...</h2><p>So, when a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskWomen/comments/10u1bpc/women_of_reddit_what_was_the_dumbest_thing_your/" target="_blank">Reddit </a>user asked parents, &quot;What was the dumbest thing your partner said when you were in labor with your child?&quot; people who momentarily questioned the person they chose to co-parent and reproduce with were ready to vent.</p><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>Stop screaming, you&rsquo;re scaring the other women. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Defiant-Pilot-2525/">Defiant-Pilot-2525</a></p> </blockquote><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>It&rsquo;s not time! You aren&rsquo;t due for a few more months. He was in complete denial I was pregnant not with one baby but two. Lol twins at 36 weeks as anticipated. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/jajida21/">jajida21</a></p> </blockquote><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>Nothing he was in the corner playing sudoku on the magazines I was given for hospital time and also constantly going out for cigarettes. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/adelemma/">adelemma</a></p> </blockquote><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>I was after 7 hours of intense pain, no active labor in sight, and he goes &quot;I&#39;m going to grab myself some nuggets. You want any?&quot; - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Dependent-Guava-4334/">Dependent-Guava-4334</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was in labour my ex said could I hurry up because he was looking forward to his 2 weeks off work relaxing while I looked after the baby and our other children. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ellepre/">ellepre</a></p> </blockquote><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>I was in labor for 46hrs and the pain made it impossible to eat and once they gave me the epidural I just wasn&rsquo;t allowed to eat. My baby daddy was like &ldquo;this is exhausting, I need to eat something&hellip;&rdquo; and he ordered a whole a*s pizza to my room and ate it in front of me. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Starlight_City45/">Starlight_City45</a></p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>Don&rsquo;t be silly a c-section doesn&rsquo;t hurt. No pain meds afterwards, it bloody well hurt. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Mapledore/">Mapledore</a></p> </blockquote><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;What&#39;s wrong with you, you look miserable?&quot; Whilst he was sat on my birthing ball, munching away on crisps taking the piss out of me for being in pain. Or &quot;can you shut that machine up, I&#39;m trying to sleep&quot; hour 23 of labor, son was back to back and my blood pressure kept dropping dramatically. Or the final one &quot;can you sew her up a bit tighter than before, it&#39;ll be like throwing a sausage down Tesco aisle.&quot; We are now divorced. Happily. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Independent_Leg_5919/">Independent_Leg_5919</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>My ex asked if it hurt&hellip;cause I wasn&rsquo;t grimacing or thrashing. I whispered for him to come over to me. I told him &ldquo;give me your balls and let me twist them as hard as I can and then ask YOU if it hurts.&rdquo; - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/glaurieb/">glaurieb</a></p> </blockquote><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>And I quote, &ldquo;I think you&rsquo;re making a lot of this pain up because when I&rsquo;m around you don&rsquo;t want to speak to me, but when the nurse comes in you&rsquo;re really nice to her.&rdquo; I tried to explain the nurse was the one giving me pain meds and if husband had anything to offer, I would have been nice to him as well. Thankfully he&rsquo;s now an ex. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Percivus-B-Pig/">Percivus-B-Pig</a></p> </blockquote><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>When my mom was in labor with my brother, my dad was so clueless. First he came in from the waiting room and said to her &ldquo;it&rsquo;s been 4 hours&hellip; are we thinking c-section?&rdquo; Then a bit later he poked his head in and said &ldquo;I was thinking of going to go get a pizza&hellip;&rdquo; then a bit later he was on the waiting room couch watching golf and a nurse came out and said &ldquo;Is that your wife in there?&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>And he responded &ldquo;yes&rdquo; and she goes &ldquo;aww. Is this your first baby?&rdquo; And he beamed with fatherly pride and said &ldquo;yes it is&rdquo; and the nurse said &ldquo;isn&rsquo;t that nice GET YOUR A*S IN THERE&rdquo;. My mom still laughs about it all. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/I_Like_Knitting_TBH/">I_Like_Knitting_TBH</a></p> </blockquote><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was in training to be L&amp;D nurse a guy said to his wife &quot;I told you I wanted you to have C, how am I supposed to f*ck you after this.&quot; - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SmutnySmalec/">SmutnySmalec</a></p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;Hurry! The lady down the hall is going to beat us!&quot; It was January 1st. He wanted us to win the 1st baby of the New Year - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/VastMisconception/">VastMisconception</a></p> </blockquote><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>My BIL, at a complete loss on how to help or comfort his wife, panicked and pulled a 6 pack of Tesco mini pork pies out of his pocket and offered her one mid birth. That was 17 years ago and we are still laughing about it. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Speedy_Dragon46/">Speedy_Dragon46</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>He doesn&#39;t think I remember this because I was pretty zonked but I was sucking on that sweet sweet gas while I was riding contractions and he said &quot;ease up on the gas babe.&quot; The nurse looked him dead on and said &quot;she can have as much gas as she wants&quot;. He was suitably cowed until it was time to cut the cord. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/senorsondering/">senorsondering</a></p> </blockquote><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>That he was starving and needed a nap - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/NonstopTomates/">NonstopTomates</a></p> </blockquote><h2>17.</h2><blockquote> <p>I was in labor at 16 hrs he said Can we go home? I was in labor another 6 hrs before baby was born. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Content-Cranberry-24/">Content-Cranberry-24</a></p> </blockquote><h2>18.</h2><blockquote> <p>Something along the lines of &ldquo;damn babe, that looks like it hurts&rdquo;. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MyOtherFunLogin/">MyOtherFunLogin</a></p> </blockquote><h2> </h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

18 parents share the dumbest thing their partners said when they were in labor.

&quot;Did you try asking the baby politely to please come out?&quot;--giving birth is not a task for the weak...So, when a Reddit user asked parents, &quot;What was the dumbest thing your partner said when you were in labor with your child?&quot; people who momentarily questioned the person they chose to co-parent and reproduce with were ready to vent.1. Stop screaming, you&rsquo;re scaring the other women. - Defiant-Pilot-2525 2. It&rsquo;s not time! You aren&rsquo;t due for a few more months. He was in complete denial I was pregnant not with one baby but two. Lol twins at 36 weeks as anticipated. - jajida21 3. Nothing he was in the corner playing sudoku on the magazines I was given for hospital time and also constantly going out for cigarettes. - adelemma 4. I was after 7 hours of intense pain, no active labor in sight, and he goes &quot;I&#39;m going to grab myself some nuggets. You want any?&quot; - Dependent-Guava-4334 5. When I was in labour my ex said could I hurry up because he was looking forward to his 2 weeks off work relaxing while I looked after the baby and our other children. - ellepre 6. I was in labor for 46hrs and the pain made it impossible to eat and once they gave me the epidural I just wasn&rsquo;t allowed to eat. My baby daddy was like &ldquo;this is exhausting, I need to eat something&hellip;&rdquo; and he ordered a whole a*s pizza to my room and ate it in front of me. - Starlight_City45 7. Don&rsquo;t be silly a c-section doesn&rsquo;t hurt. No pain meds afterwards, it bloody well hurt. - Mapledore 8. &quot;What&#39;s wrong with you, you look miserable?&quot; Whilst he was sat on my birthing ball, munching away on crisps taking the piss out of me for being in pain. Or &quot;can you shut that machine up, I&#39;m trying to sleep&quot; hour 23 of labor, son was back to back and my blood pressure kept dropping dramatically. Or the final one &quot;can you sew her up a bit tighter than before, it&#39;ll be like throwing a sausage down Tesco aisle.&quot; We are now divorced. Happily. - Independent_Leg_5919 9. My ex asked if it hurt&hellip;cause I wasn&rsquo;t grimacing or thrashing. I whispered for him to come over to me. I told him &ldquo;give me your balls and let me twist them as hard as I can and then ask YOU if it hurts.&rdquo; - glaurieb 10. And I quote, &ldquo;I think you&rsquo;re making a lot of this pain up because when I&rsquo;m around you don&rsquo;t want to speak to me, but when the nurse comes in you&rsquo;re really nice to her.&rdquo; I tried to explain the nurse was the one giving me pain meds and if husband had anything to offer, I would have been nice to him as well. Thankfully he&rsquo;s now an ex. - Percivus-B-Pig 11. When my mom was in labor with my brother, my dad was so clueless. First he came in from the waiting room and said to her &ldquo;it&rsquo;s been 4 hours&hellip; are we thinking c-section?&rdquo; Then a bit later he poked his head in and said &ldquo;I was thinking of going to go get a pizza&hellip;&rdquo; then a bit later he was on the waiting room couch watching golf and a nurse came out and said &ldquo;Is that your wife in there?&rdquo;  And he responded &ldquo;yes&rdquo; and she goes &ldquo;aww. Is this your first baby?&rdquo; And he beamed with fatherly pride and said &ldquo;yes it is&rdquo; and the nurse said &ldquo;isn&rsquo;t that nice GET YOUR A*S IN THERE&rdquo;. My mom still laughs about it all. - I_Like_Knitting_TBH 12. When I was in training to be L&amp;D nurse a guy said to his wife &quot;I told you I wanted you to have C, how am I supposed to f*ck you after this.&quot; - SmutnySmalec 13. &quot;Hurry! The lady down the hall is going to beat us!&quot; It was January 1st. He wanted us to win the 1st baby of the New Year - VastMisconception 14. My BIL, at a complete loss on how to help or comfort his wife, panicked and pulled a 6 pack of Tesco mini pork pies out of his pocket and offered her one mid birth. That was 17 years ago and we are still laughing about it. - Speedy_Dragon46 15. He doesn&#39;t think I remember this because I was pretty zonked but I was sucking on that sweet sweet gas while I was riding contractions and he said &quot;ease up on the gas babe.&quot; The nurse looked him dead on and said &quot;she can have as much gas as she wants&quot;. He was suitably cowed until it was time to cut the cord. - senorsondering 16. That he was starving and needed a nap - NonstopTomates 17. I was in labor at 16 hrs he said Can we go home? I was in labor another 6 hrs before baby was born. - Content-Cranberry-24 18. Something along the lines of &ldquo;damn babe, that looks like it hurts&rdquo;. - MyOtherFunLogin  

&quot;Did you try asking the baby politely to please come out?&quot;--giving birth is not a task for the weak...  So, when a Reddit user asked parents, &quot;What was the dumbest thing your partner said when you were in labor with your...