• Toneswirly@lemmy.world
    70·
    9 months ago

    I saw my wife give birth, it was both gross and fascinating but mostly I was grateful that she went through that for us, so yeah I also thought it was beautiful.

    • RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works
      28·
      9 months ago

      It’s so cool to see. The head comes out so slowly but then once the shoulders are out, the baby just pops right out. Amazing.

      • Thrashy@lemmy.world
        48·
        9 months ago

        I’m a bit squeamish, so I arranged myself so as to be seated basically next to my wife’s head, facing the wall, and was laser focused on holding her hand and maintaining eye contact with her.

        Meanwhile, the delivering doctor was narrating a play by play as our kid went from just barely crowning to head fully out in three contractions, and then she just had to maneuver his shoulder free and he popped out on the fourth push. Three random things I will never forget from that night:

        • The doctor seeing the umbilical cord and announcing “That’s a man that likes to eat!”
        • The doctor further complimenting my wife that she “rocked that thing out like it was her job”
        • One of the nurses looking into the hazmat bucket they’d packed the placenta into and muttering “Jesus Christ…”

        Overall, 10/10, never doing it ever again.

      • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
        18·
        9 months ago

        I watched it on youtube once. “So cool” is about the last descriptor I would use. “Disgusting”, and “fuckin nasty” are some of the words that came out of my mouth during that video.

        I think you’ve got the glow of parenthood on that memory.

        • DudeDudenson@lemmings.world
          19·
          9 months ago

          Did she poop? I remember watching one on YouTube while eating a banana and the lady pooped herself while pushing

          Still ate the banana

          • RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works
            9·
            9 months ago

            Nah, it was my friend’s kid. I was there to support her. I’ve been the one giving birth before and it was just a blur of screaming and pain, but from the other side it was so cool. I’m not squeamish with blood and stuff so I could just focus on the fact that an entire person just popped out of my friend. What the fuck.

      • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        Don’t bail out on watching it. It really is fascinating to see.

        But for sure don’t prioritize watching over helping your wife out. Pushing on her upper back while she’s pushing helped my wife out a ton. There was a clear difference in the baby’s movement through the birth canal when I helped out.

        But have fun! It’s such a wild, exhausting time. Your wife is going to struggle so be supportive!

        Sorry for the unsolicited advice, we had our first kid a couple months ago, so it’s still fresh in my mind.

        • ben16w@lemmy.world
          1·
          9 months ago

          It’s our first kid as well. Shitting bricks but I’m almost certainly less worried than her so I think my role is to basically support her as much as possible. Thanks for the advice!

    • BreadOven@lemmy.world
      10·
      9 months ago

      The cord was much harder to cut than I thought it would be. Like it wasn’t hard, just more effort than I thought it would have needed.

      • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        My wife was super out of it on Epidural drugs during real labor, but I love telling her the sound of the blood hitting the floor after the baby came out.

        It was baby then SPLOOSSHH. I’ll never forget that noise.

  • Classy@sh.itjust.works
    25·
    9 months ago

    I delivered my baby and for sure about 35% of my thought process in that period was “holy shit she’s really stretched out” lol

  • M137@lemmy.world
    10·
    9 months ago

    Had a friend when I was a kid whose mom was… eccentric. Very hippie old lady who worked as a “tantric sex couples therapist”. One time when I slept over I woke up and had to go pee. I bumped into the mom who was walking around the house completely naked and she hugged me and asked if I wanted a cup of tea, I was still half awake and said yes for some reason. When I came back from the toilet she was sitting with a photo album and asked me to sit down next to her so she could show “the birth of her daughter” (my friend). And the photos were incredibly explicit. My reaction was exactly like this comic, really not something a 13-year-old boy like me should see. I’m lucky it didn’t give me some birthing or pregnancy fetish or something, being at a prime age at the time for something like that to develop.