Mansplaining: Pregnancy and Birth Edition

[Bluebird3456]

Having had labour/birth mansplained to me by a colleague today ("the midwives will tell you to pant, what you really want to do is breathe only through your nose" yada yada), I wondered if anyone has any mansplaining stories to share! Please help make a fellow preggo laugh

@soubriquet 😱😡. Your own mother!!

These people and their comments 🤨🤨🤨🤨 can't believe some people spout such utter crap 😂

I met a couple on holiday years ago and they finally had a baby a few months ago. When the husband saw I was pregnant on Facebook he launched into advice at every opportunity and started sending me photos and videos of his baby. Advice included making sure I started to scrub my nips now to toughen them up. I don’t know why on earth he thought it appropriate to discuss the nipples of a woman you have spoken to a handful of times with her! I finally had to draw the line when I didn’t agree to being cajoled into signing that extended maternity leave/pay petition. He told me I didn’t know the “headfuck” I was going into and it was going to be worse for me than them as we have already been in lockdown. Thankfully he buggered off after I politely told him his comments were extremely unhelpful. And acted the wounded party in the process!

I am at 'not a real woman' if having c section (really wtf is that about) and nipple scrubbing! What is wrong with people!

My mum says, "pregnant not ill"! Also wanted to give birth at home because, "hospitals are for ill people".

She is lovely otherwise though.

Female (childless) friend (um acquaintance) who was at MED SCHOOL told me childbirth is only painful because you expect it to be because everyone has told you it is. She said people in Africa just squat in the fields, pop a baby out then carry on because no one there makes a fuss. She said if women stopped telling other women it was painful no one would experience any pain and everyone should just shut up about it. We lost touch, hoping she's not an obstetrician now...

@Schrodingerspeanutbuttersandw she's going to be in for a shock when she has a baby isn't she 😂😂

@sarahc336 haha but it would just be everyone else's fault for telling her!

@Schrodingerspeanutbuttersandw I'll ask my mother if they ran out of space in the field the day she had me in hospital with pain relief. She always described labour as death so maybe women from the west got to her too?