Did your partner say/do anything annoying during labour?

[Astrid]

Well he snored. When I was in transition and screaming for an epidural, he yelled at me "No you bl00dy well don't want an epidural!!!!", when all I wanted him to do was rub my back and tell me I can do it. Oh did I mention that he snored

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Several times, Kelly. But I'm more annoyed at him that he's away this weekend and is going to come home tired even though I've had DS all to myself all weekend and now he needs the car on Monday so I have to walk to work after running around like a mad thing all weekend, so I'm just mad at him anyway.

[feeb]

This thread is ace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dh was great when i was in labour. cant think of anything bad he held heat packs, shower heads and massgaed when i wanted etc

But i have a funny from work OMG i nearly died

A doctor does a VE on a woman and the husband turns aroundand says to her gee he can only get 2 fingers in you I can get a whole fist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE

[myson]

With DD1 my DH was asked "would you like to cut the cord?" he is the queasy, fainting type in medical situations, but I still dont think that justifies the statement...

"eeww yuk, NO WAY!"

but aside from that he was an absolute darling....

[~clover~]

But i have a funny from work OMG i nearly died

A doctor does a VE on a woman and the husband turns aroundand says to her gee he can only get 2 fingers in you I can get a whole fist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE

OMG. That poor woman
:rolf:

[kirsty_lee]

hahahha feeb, that would of been something that my dp would of said. i swear they need to learn to engage brain before mouth

[SamiH]

DS #1 - Neither of us really knew what to expect - DH massaged my hips for about 3 mnutes, then said his hands hurt, sucked on my gas to see what it felt like, and after I had an epi (one of THOSE first time looooooooong labours) - I had the bad shakes and was petrified, whilst he slept in the big comfy chair .....

DD - He kept changing music to his liking so I told him to turn it off - he gave me the most foul look like who did I think I was - this was about transition time .... I was stuck on bed so he could do whatever he wanted apparently and when I did need some touch/help, just looked totally bored with the whole thing!

NOW - he realises the music thing totally out of line and that he wasn't very supportive - even though there.

THIS time we have a doula and I am going to give it my best natural shot ... and he KNOWS he has a job to do now apart from being an observer.

However, I never made him feel bad, until we started talking about upcoming birth and doula discussions - men being men, he took it personally like he had failed me and why hadn't I said anything - oh der, look at his reaction!!! I didn't want to make him feel bad ..

[Karina]

On the way to the hospital, he told me to ring his mum. It was 2am and I was getting contractions every 2 minutes, and I hadnt slept in almost 24 hours. I just wasnt in the mood to speak to her, she isnt my favourite person. I told him no. He said "Why not, can you just ring her, tell her we're going to the hospital" and he kept at it and I really didnt want to talk to her but I did just to make him shut up. I was so annoyed. For some reason it just made me really angry.

Then at the hospital, I wanted to use the water to help with my back pain from the contractions and so I'm sitting there with the water, and making noise through my contractions. All I can see is him sitting there on a chair with a horrible look on his face. He was making his face all scrunched up and I just COULD NOT look at hom because it was SO ANNOYING. I had to close my eyes so I wouldnt have to look at him. I wanted him to massage my back and stuff like that. But all he did was sit on this stupid chair.

He also went out of the room a few times to call him mum to "give her updates" on how I was going. This annoyed me NO END. I didnt want her involved at all but he went and told her "she's x cm's, she just had pethidine" He comes back and says that his mum told him the pethidine is bad and will make me drowsy. I really hated that he did that.

Oh and he kept on moving the gas away. At one point I was using it for every contraction and I was just picking it up when I needed it. But then, he moved it out of my reach and took ages to give it back to me when I needed it. I had to pretty much ask for it each time. He was trying to watch for cues to see when I wanted it, but he didnt really know what to look for so he was always too slow. When I had finished with it, I'd put it down next to me. Straight away, he'd move it. I started screaming at him each time he moved it. He still moved it each time even though I screamed not to. I wanted to kick him in the head.