For me, I think I would find my mam more useful and practical then my OH.
Hope ye are not straying into the "all men are helpless/useless" stereotype, give them a chance and they might surprise ye.
. My own dad wasn't allowed to be present for the first two kids as the nuns made him wait in the waiting room, he was quite angered by this at the time as was my mam because she had nobody to speak up for her and was stuck with two horrible nuns ordering her about!.
Am I missing something here? Isn't the man's child too ( well one would presume ).
Is a birth some horrible experience that men should be excused from? And even if it is horrible, and, no doubt, some of them are, why should they be excused from it? Is it to spare their frail little sensibilities?
Point is, as a mother you don't really get a choice either; as a mother you are expected to want the father there - so you tend to go along with it without really questioning it;
at least until he passes out.
Mother's whim. Though it is unfair to call it a whim. But if there is ever a time when a woman should be entitled to dictate terms, it is during childbirth.
Frankly, if a husband\partner is 'asked' to stand on his head for the duration, he should probably do so - at least until he passes out.
+1. I kicked my partner out, and had my mother in instead - she was much more helpful. Partner was useless, starting arguments with me about any request I made .....baby was in distress so we were both stressed. Mind you, he was awfully resentful about me preferring my mother's presence.... split up shortly after.
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