My husband is ruining my second birth experience
The tension started a week or so ago. I am 39 weeks today and being induced later on today. Last week, I was 3cm dilated and crampy and generally not feeling well. My doctor was gone until the date of my induction (today), and the doctor on call is someone my husband does internet work for. He kept saying he didn’t want me to go into labor for him to deliver the baby, it would be awkward to work for him again blah blah. I finally snapped and said it’s my vagina and body and i don’t care if he sees my vagina and I am the one who CAN care, so drop it. In other words, you don’t get a say cause it’s not your vagina or body.
Things have been more and more tense since then. He hasn’t been very kind or compassionate, and says things like “well I don’t have a say on the pregnancy or delivery so..” and other childish things. Yesterday I was contracting and he was blowing me off acting like it wasn’t the real thing cause “I could talk through the contractions”. I told him with my first son, who he is also the father of, i talked until they were 2-3 min apart. I haven’t had the baby so it wasn’t the real thing, but the point is, he doesn’t know what it feels like so he can’t say it’s not real. He was basically mansplaining labor pains. We got into an argument and he said I belittle him. I told him that he is being childish and I’m not feeling well, and he needs to get over it or divorce me but I’m not parenting a toddler, a newborn, and a husband. He needs to get it together for the baby and stop being so childish.
He hasn’t really spoken to me all day yesterday or today. Our induction is at 12am tonight. I’m feeling really mad at him almost to the point I can’t look at him. I don’t know if he should even come to the hospital room or not. He will just pout the entire time. I woke up this morning willing to let it go but he is still pouting and being short.
Edit:I will say it’s not that it’s sexy, I think for him it’s just weird to work closely with someone who delivered their child. He feels it will be a little weird, but I don’t think it’s a “he saw my wife’s vagina” issue. It’s a, he was all up in both of our businesses in an intimate moment, thing.
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