WHINGE ALERT! AIBU...to be cheesed off that I've had to tell DH FIVE TIMES that I'm having abdominal cramps in late pregnancy...

[SpeedyGonzalez]

...before I get a response?

FIRST TIME: No response.

SECOND TIME (30 seconds later): What bread do you want, then?

At this point I consider pointing out to him that he appears to have ignored me. Experience has taught me that he will become huffy and grumpy if I suggest that in any way he has done something wrong, and frankly I can't be arsed to get into an argument. I have my cramps to deal with, after all.

THIRD TIME (20 mins later am talking to him about something else and comment that I'm still having these cramps - it feels like a game now): No response.

FOURTH TIME (1 minute later DH asks if I'm alright as I'm writhing on the floor so I tell him again): Oh, I see.

FIFTH TIME (10 mins later): Oh dear, what do you think it could be?

BINGO!!!

FIVE BLOODY ATTEMPTS it took for him to absorb this information.

Anyway it looks like the cramps are just wind, thankfully . Perhaps I shall join him the office while I expel . Mwa haharrr.

YANBU. I think you should get yourself a big pointy stick and jab him with it when you need to tell him things.

My DH went for the total panic response when I went into labour.

ME. I've just had a big contraction, we should phone the hospital.

HIM. (leaping out of bed in his underpants and running round the room like a headless chicken)
'The Baby's coming, THE BABY'S COMING !!'

Good luck

Rofl at Kurri! A few months too early for those kind of cramps (fingers crossed!). Hope your DH transformed into SuperBirthPartner for you after his initial panic!

FairyCake - I like your thinking, girl!

When my cramps (actually labour) started, DH announced he was popping out for a drink with his mate .

Obviously more to the story than this, but I still like to embarrass DH with this story every now and again.

Good on you, vani, and so you should! Men - honestly, such wretched beings they are!

dh fell asleep in the chair next to me whilst i was labouring away in the hospital. the nurse asked me if i would like her to get him some coffee (or jab him with a sharp stick).

do try and stay awake dear...

i think the ones that flap hysterically every time you get bh must be a reet pita though.

ME - oh my waters have broke all over the bed

DP - ok, i think i need to go for a poo

and off he went with his golf magazine leaving me in a puddle of water!

YANBU!! I would have gone and stood as close to him as possible until he acknowleged me (if you were able). Thats what I do if I need DHs attention.

When I went into labour, I went into DH who was asleep, told him he wouldn't be going to work tomorrow as I was in labour. He said ok, rolled over and went back to sleep!! Then on the way to the hospital, we had to stop off at Asda for camera batteries (DS was 10 days early) and he just wandered in, came out eventually with batteries, a paper and some coke!! Men!

When i was in labour and leaning over banister in pain my DH said 'I could realy do without this i don't feel well'. Think the whole street heard my response!

My DH said to me about 15 minutes before we left for the hospital

"I dont know what to wear!"

Hard choice between 2 t shirts... I shouted, lots

! No WONDER people like Michel Odent say men should be kept out of the birthing room (somewhat ironic, as he's a birthing guru ).

Thankfully DH was brill during my first labour, and so I was as sweet as apple pie throughout. If he dares try any of your DPS' tricks this time around he shall get more than a jabbing stick in his arse!

Imust confess that with dc2, when I got the first cramps at 2:30am, I rolled over, jabbed dp and told him it would be TODAY, and I was the one who promptly went back to sleep.

DP said later he thought he'd been dreaming!