If you were faced with this question, what would you do?

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If you were faced with the choice between saving your partner or a stranger's baby, what would you do?

Get the partner to hold the baby or lay the baby on them and save both?
I'm single so it'd be the baby anyway 🤣

Wow I'm surprised at the responses.

I would absolutely save the baby.

Then again I am divorced 😂

I agree. We all make choices that aren't "prioritising all babies in the world". We could donate for vaccines, water, aid, midwives etc. (That's normal, not saying it's wrong, although collectively we could make a big difference! )

But in a face-to-face situation we might feel differently.

I'd probably dither and they'd both end up dying.

The harder choice is between your partner or your baby. I think almost all women will save their baby, but some men may actually save their partner.

Partner(for DD's sake). Then I'd do something clumsy or stupid and end up dying myself.

I'd hope this choice isn't hard for most people. Baby all the way.

One thing that's interesting for me is the difference that being born makes. Before giving birth, I was very afraid of dying in childbirth (I don't know why, some biological thing kicking in telling me this was likely??). I was relieved to learn that you don't actually get a choice in "who to save" in an emergency, the midwives save the mother. I was relieved to learn this because I 100% wanted to live, even if it meant losing the baby if something went wrong. But the second my baby was handed to me, I would happily have given up my life for theirs. What explains that? It's not even just instinct, because even many years removed from the situation, there seems to me to be a crucial difference. I'd still instantly sacrifice myself for a baby I was holding, but not a baby I was carrying in my womb.

I could never not save an innocent little baby.

My husband.

There is even less chance I would save a random animal over my husband 😱

Cannot imagine being in that situation and not choosing the innocent vulnerable baby!

Ha ha. Me too!

I would save the baby, they havnt had a chance at life.

Can’t the stranger save their own baby?

Husband over stranger's baby, but if it was between husband and my cat... not sure, I'd have to think about it.

I'd save my husband every time. Not sorry, I dislike the assumption that all women must sacrifice their own happiness for children, whether they are theirs or not.

My husband is in his 50s, as am I. He would want me to save the baby and I would. Equally, I (hope I) would say "I love you, save the baby" if the situation was reversed.

It's an age-old reflection on the value of human life - Google the "Trolley Problem" for ever more complex and challenging moral dilemmas.

I think I'd have to save the baby, partly because I'd hate for a mother to have to lose a child - that must be the worst grief anyone could go through, I imagine. I don't think I could live with myself knowing I could've stopped someone going through losing their baby.

Blimey what a horrifying situation though. I feel a bit stressed out now!

What if I'm stuck with the baby afterwards?! I'm not always keen on my own children I definitely don't want someone else's.

Having said that, DH has life insurance ... it is a tough one for sure 😅😅😅

My partner.

My partner, without question.

I agree with this, having given birth I couldn’t not save a baby. Even if it wasn’t mine, it’s someone’s baby. Though I suppose your DH is always going to be your MIL’s baby, so…

I did have a row with my partner beforehand because I said that in a life or death situation, I would want him to save me, not the baby. He disagreed and was appalled. He thought I would beg him to save the baby. Nope! But I hadn’t had the baby at that point…!

Oh I’d 100% expect dh to save my over any unrelated randomer.

Partner with no doubt. I don’t like babies. but of if it were a child between 3 and 16, still my partner, bit I’d be wracked with guilt.

Husband