I love my husband with my whole heart but I am STEAMING right now. My face feels so hot and I’m breathing so heavy. I know I’m only this upset cause my hormones, but he is just such a pretentious know-it-all sometimes.

I’m expecting my second baby currently. He was INSISTING that, because he’s “read about it” (which obviously, I HAVE TOO), labor feels the same for everyone. Even tried telling me that I was in more pain in the tub at my water birth than I was out of it. I kept telling him “I mean yes it was still really painful while in the tub, but it felt MUCH better than when I was out of the warm water”. He basically was saying that I just wasn’t remembering right. “There were multiple people in the room that could tell you as soon as you got in that tub your body immediately went into overdrive and you were in more pain cause it knew it was time”. NO. I was in the tub in pain, then they made me get out to progress things (I ended up getting back in for the pushing), and AS SOON as my belly was out of the water, it was soooo much more painful.

Saying labor contractions are ALWAYS painful for EVERYONE (even when I was able to give him multiple examples of women I know personally who didn’t even feel their contractions or just thought they were BH until they were in active labor), and ALWAYS progresses quickly. Saying he knows all this because he’s read and learned all about the chemicals being released during labor and such. Bro. You can read as much as you want, but that is NOT first hand experience. You are WRONG. STOP.