” Husbands make sacrifices during their wife’s pregnancy that can take years to recover from.”

[AllAloneInThisHouse]

This is what I read somewhere else.
I’m sorry but it just me laugh.
Any guesses what he was on about?

Correlation doesn't equal causation.

Bless their hearts 🙄

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Correlation doesn't equal causation.

But an inverse correlation does rather suggest that there is not a significant positive effect. Not quite as snappy I'll grant you.

I think the worst aspect of pregnancy for DH was that I could at one point only eat two things. He then bought a case lot of one of them, I took one look, covered my mouth and ran to the loo to throw up. I do remember his face as he ate through the whole box.

I got my dh to shave my downstairs when I was heavily pregnant with a huge baby.

I couldn't stand the feel of the hair but couldn't actually see to do it myself without risking a wayward labia to the Gillette blade.

He's a professional barber.

We called it cuntouring.

Same. Perhaps he needs therapy?

Another one who got their DH to shave their lady garden before birth. DC2 is due in a few months, so he better get any therapy that he requires now.

My poor husband had to put up with my craving for the smell of beer. Poor bloke had to have a bottle of it every night so I could enjoy the smell.

On a serious note... it wasn't until I was pregnant again I realised how scary he had found the first birth. I can't remember it. He can. He never talked about it.

To be fair - I saw my own ExH go through the worries, concerns, scares etc through four pregnancies - two of which were losses one quite late.

So in that context I appreciate how it can be very challenging to experience these aspects of pregnancy and be for a lot the time be invisible.

Did he worry about our sex life - yes as did I at times, when medically advised to "cease and desist" - as it was an important aspect of our relationship.

I made mine trim my bush😂

This is what I read somewhere else.......... really, where was that then ?

Mine really did because I had HG and couldn’t care for our older child so DH took on most day to day care. He made that knowingly and willingly and certainly hasn’t suffered for years as a result.

But doubt that is the kind of sacrifice he was talking about.

Mine had to strap my sandals onto my hippo feet, does that count?

My dh had it really hard. Before being pregnant he got to finish off my left overs because I had a small appetite. I also didn’t eat certain meats then so he’d help himself to my extra bacon etc. He practically starved through the pregnancy and breast feeding cravings, trying to exist on mere single portions.

I had hyperemesis, and on a good day all I could face eating was a Burger King spicy beanburger I have no idea why. It wasn't a craving as such. DH had to come with me, and 13 years later we do not eat at Burger King ever because he can't face it. He has PTSD about whoppers I'm sure.

He might recover, he might not.

Think of the years of trauma we will go through not having the answer 🤔😅

In the bad old days the midwife used to do it while you were in labour. 😱

Ah I found the thread on Reddit. The attitude of the men on that thread seems odd to me 😕 They seem very insecure.

I got regular attacks of food-fuelled RAGE when a food that I had been thinking about eating all day had been finished by someone else.

I also talked about chicken mcNuggets a lot possibly unreasonable amount. It must have been torture for him.

Poor menz

never given birth so jsut wondering do you have to shave if off?

Reddit. As the OP said.

@HelloBarkness

We called it cuntouring

crying at this!

never given birth so jsut wondering do you have to shave if off?

no. It used to be a thing to shave prior birth or surgery, but research has shown that shaving damages the skin causing nicks and microtears, which means a far higher chance of infection. So now it’s not recommended or done (although some hospitals/staff not up to date on current best practice may still do).

many women still do though, for various reasons including fear of being judged for not being hairless, as it is/was the societal norm, to thinking they should as they’ve been told by older women that they will be shaved, or just because they prefer it or want to.

(Ex) Son-i-l asked my dd for paracetamol after the birth of their first dc whilst midwives were dealing with her PPH, the room was too warm for him apparantly and had given him a headache. She told him she hadn't packed any because she didn't think they would help with labour pain! M
2nd birth, he was absent but when visiting complained when he midwife asked him to change dc2 dirty nappy. He had just sat down and asksd why midwife hadn't asked dd to do it - she was in HDU with various tubes attached to her after 2nd PPH but it was unfair to make him change a nappy - I'm sure he was traumatised.