Advice please (seriously)

[Cymru70]

Posting on behalf of male friend with what he considers a serious dilemma. He's a die hard rugby fan and has had the game trip planned for a while but timings aren't synching well...
Here goes, our first baby might be born when the France-Wales game is on.......do I take the iPad or watch it on the phone.....how much attention do I pay the game.....or do I just shout push when we have the scrum.

Any advice please...he's actually been told by friends to keep to the game & face time/livestream the birth...this is beyond me. Please help

Tell him “Wear a condom if you don’t want to be a dad. You didn’t. Go and be a dad.”

I have no idea about rugby, is this game on today and she is already in labour. If so then it looks like you he will have to record it and watch it later. If this match is in a few days or weeks and she isn't in labour then relax, it is very unlikely to happen at exactly the same time as the match.

It depends what his partner wants him to do, I guess.

But my DH - also a diehard rugby fan - would have ended up under our patio if he so much as suggested that! (Nor would he have even considered it, I have to say).

Your friend is being a selfish and immature dick.

I suspect this is a piss take but anyway.... no harm in watching the rugby during the early stages, when she needs to push though she may well need you. That being said my DH has very little involvement in my labour, he was there and I imagine attentive but I kind of got myself in the zone and got on with it, I didn’t want hand holds or back rubs or whatever

This has to be a joke? When I was in labour I nearly died and DH was in floods of tears. He had to help me phone my parents while I was waiting for surgery so I could say goodbye in case the worst happened. Then he had to change into scrubs and hold my hand while the surgeon tried to save my life.

Labour is unpredictable. And this twat thinks he can watch rugby while his partner is in labour? Or worse still, not attend at all? Sorry but he deserved to be dumped for even considering it!

He sounds mature .
Having said that, I was in labour on Tuesday night and DH watched the Spurs game on his phone while I was labouring. It was fine by me, I don’t like to be talked to or touched in labour so there wasn’t much he could contribute at that stage! The game finished about 15 mins before I started pushing.

It's up to him and his partner to decide on what they're happy with, and what she is happy with! That's what's important, not what he wants to do.

If he's not an immature fool, then he surely can realise that France/Wales rugby happens every year - his baby will only be born once. So record the match and suck it up.

Is he aware that many international sports stars who are actually playing in these kinds of matches drop everything and go home to attend the birth of their children?!

Seriously?!