" Are they going to sew together it tighter ? " 😡 😡 😡
If I ever wanna feel angry, I think about all the husbands in the world who have twiddled their thumbs while their wives pushed a whole ass baby out of their vagina.
Maybe that’s why I was drawn to thisRedditthread by u/nursingboi— a labor and delivery nurse — who asked fellow nurses for tips on how not to get super fucking mad at useless dads in the delivery room. People mostly took this as an opportunity to share the worst situations they’ve ever had to deal with. Here are 17 that’ll make you wanna pull your hair out:
1.“During my OB clinicals, a dad was on his phone as the baby was crowning. I kept looking back at him and trying to get him engaged. It was enraging and sad.”
— pensivemusicplaying
2.“I work postpartum and a lot of dads think their baby isn’t their responsibility. They won’t change diapers, they won’t hold the baby, they won’t help with feeds, and they look at me with this shocked look in their eyes if I ask them to do anything.”
— pinkpumpkinapple
— chgnty
4.“I had a dad ask his laboring partner if she was going to ‘be finished’ before the puck dropped at a hockey game he wanted to watch.”
— HRH_Elizadeath
5.“House supervisor here. A code blue was called in Labor and Delivery — very unusual — so I was expecting something truly awful. It was called for a new dad who passed out after using heroin in the waiting area bathroom.”
— s1s2g3a4
6.“I once had a dad try to go behind his wife’s back and have his mother be their second visitor rather than her own mother, who she wanted there. When he left the room she was begging me to not let her MIL come in, and I had to stop the MIL at the front desk and send her home, which the dad was verrryyyyyy mad about.”
7.“When I was in clinical I had one dad who actually told the mom that she was lucky he was there because with his first kid (not with her) he wasn’t even at the hospital. He just sat in the recliner watching some true crime show. The doctor did make a small comment about the show choice, but beyond that we all just side-eyed him and tried a few times to get him more involved.”
— future_nurse19
8.“I haven’t done a ton of Labor and Delivery shifts, but I’ve definitely seen the ‘brought my gaming console from home’ thing a few times. One guy, in particular, was really bad. He was on there literally every time I came in the room (postpartum) and the Labor and Delivery nurses said he was doing the same during the actual labor as well. I think he may have paused it during the actual final few pushes, but that’s it.”
— wineandpillowforts
9.“Since COVID, the amount of male partners who whine and complain about having to wear a mask during the prenatal appointments and during delivery just makes my head want to explode. Their partner is growing their child in their body, their organs are slowly being compressed, THEY ARE RISKING THEIR LIVES TO PRODUCE YOUR SPAWN, AND YOU CAN’T EVEN WEAR A TINY SQUARE OF PAPER ON YOUR FACE FOR 15–30 MINUTES BECAUSE IT’S NOT COMFORTABLE?????????”
— ThornyRose456
10.“I got a dad who was getting annoyed at his wife trying to breastfeed for the first time because she wasn’t doing it the way he wanted her to do it. ‘You have to hold his head this way! You have to guide your nipple this way!’ Like dude, shut up.”
— _ meh _
11.“I got one that takes the cake recently. The patient was taking a nap, and the father left for dinner or whatever. The patient woke up to use the bathroom and delivered her baby on the toilet. The father was nowhere in the hospital and wasn’t answering her calls. The placenta was delayed, and the patient was hemorrhaging. We give Cytotec rectally, and Hemabate to help placenta deliver. Hemabate can cause crazy diarrhea, so the patient was shitting her brains out, bleeding excessively, in massive pain, and also just delivered her dead baby. The father came back and she tore into him, but then he just sat in the chair and asked the nurses for a warm blanket and a popsicle. Do you know how hard it is to not want to hit a ‘support’ person?”
— islandsomething
12.“I just took care of a 19-year-old postpartum C-section mom for the last two nights. She has been up with the baby crying all night, so tired, and I have not seen her man awake ONCE in the two nights I took care of her. She even asked if one of the nurses could go to the lobby to pick up her Doordash because she didn’t want to wake the dad. Absolute loser, made my fucking blood boil.”
— AppointmentUsed118
13.“My oldest’s father was like this when I had his baby. Playing Tetris on his phone until midnight and then telling me to just get the morphine so I would be quiet and he could sleep. And this was back in the days of flip phones — looking at your phone for hours was super weird then. That was over a decade ago and I can still remember that feeling of being abandoned by the person I loved.”
— eatyurmakeup
14.“I work postpartum and nothing drives me more mental than the men that constantly whine about how uncomfortable the dad bench is to sleep on and how they’re tired, as if their wife didn’t just push out an entire ass baby and is up feeding their cluster-feeding newborn throughout the night (and they complain so much about how they can’t sleep, but they’ll be out cold snoring whenever I come in for assessments).”
15.“I recently met a dad giving everyone the silent treatment because his wife’s emergency C-section made him late for his haircut.”
— preciselye
16.“I’ve had a dad leave while the mother of his children was being C-sectioned to ‘pop out for a smoke.’ One dad in particular kept calling his partner names like ‘fat cow’…we were close to kicking him out.”
— c - comme - ca
17.And finally, “I once had a first-time dad who when I put his daughter in his arms, asked why we didn’t have HBO because he wanted to watchGame of Thrones.”
— Kaclassen
