Childbirth: "a disgusting moment"

[bojo7]

Cannot see this anywhere else.

Footballer Jeremy Doku plans to leave his Belgium team mates to be at the birth of his first child.

From BBC website:
However, Doku's plan to leave the USA and return home has brought fierce criticism from L'Equipe channel presenter France Pierron, who labelled a father "completely useless" at the time of their child's birth.
"The World Cup is an incredible joy," she said in a message posted to the Facebook page of French sports publication L'Equipe.
"There are hundreds of footballers who would kill to be in your shoes. It might never happen again in your life.
"You're living out a childhood dream, yet you're going to walk away from it all to attend the birth of your child - a disgusting moment, if you'll pardon the expression, where the dad is completely useless."

Or they should have planned their family better so that she wasn’t likely to go into labour during the World Cup

@bojo7
Ah, mr perron
A true humanist in your 'macho"world of football
I take it that
You're either single for whatever reason
Or
Have yet to achieve fatherhood status yourself?

It’s pretty common actually. There are swathes of studies that show that the average father does a lot less than the average mother.

so well done on having a good one- I can see why you’re smug about it.

but maybe consider that most women go into pregnancy also thinking they have chosen a decent father. The only way of really knowing is through experience. And not all men rise to the challenge

I’m remembering the American attaché in ‘Good Omens’.

Theres a good reason we like to have the French around, so we can take the mick or just say how disgusting they are with the dislike of amphibians and snails, and they can do that french shrug and say ‘les anglais are de stupide ones, hey, you did the brexite non?’

Pleased to report my dh made himself useful catching 1 baby swimming up out of a birth pool and being handed both quickly by slowly-looking-more-horrified staff as I had big haemorrhages.

Whoever it was on pg 2 who said men need to be more aware of the risks women run had it right.

Plenty of good men miss their children's birth because of work. My DH is ex military, if he was on deployment, that would have been that.

World Cup is peak career for any footballer. I think it's madness. What matters is what he does after he comes home and for the next 18 years.

Yes. I didn’t want second husband in with me. He would panic and centre himself. I did better without him. I left two years later.

I said this. While i understand not all pregnancies are planned. They were fully aware there was a World Cup and that he would be selected and they should have been careful.

also everyone saying he’ll have more world cups - you can’t guarantee that the country will qualify or that he’ll be picked.

My husband was a great support during both my births. That being said, if he was a footballer playing at the World Cup I'd understand him staying to play.
We are however a big football loving family.

My youngest was born in a World Cup year and when we were due to be let out of hospital, my husband ran in to collect us saying "Are we good to go?" We looked at the midwife and said "England are playing in a bit!". She confirmed we could go if we were happy!😂

Unfortunate choice of words or intentional ?