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37 weeks and DH

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Clearbrightwater · 29/06/2023 18:31

DH works around 2 hours away in peak traffic. At home with a 2 yo and 37 weeks pregnant. Messaged an hour ago to ask what time he’d be back and he only just replied … surely he should have his phone near him and regularly check it? Feeling a tad abandoned Sad

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SunSurfSand · 30/06/2023 06:01

Obviously he should have his phone on loud.

It's a tad dramatic to say you've been abandoned.

I think it's fine to ignore a text. A text isn't urgent. If it's urgent people call, which presumably you would have done had you been in labour.

MrsU2022 · 30/06/2023 06:07

I'm 38 weeks and have told my husband he needs to have his phone on and be on standby...even my midwife spoke about this with me in my appt this week! So I agree with you! Ignore the previous unnecessary bitchy comments. X

standardduck · 30/06/2023 06:08

I think you are overreacting, but I understand that late pregnancy can make you feel a bit overwhelmed and emotional.

I am 39 weeks pregnant and my DH goes to the office few times a week. Our agreement is that I call him in an emergency and also have contact details for 2 of his colleagues if for some reason he doesn't hear his phone.
Can you do something similar?

CurlewKate · 30/06/2023 06:40

You need a concrete plan, @Clearbrightwater, particularly if your OP is the only person available to look after your toddler. He does need to have his phone on him all the time at the moment. Do you have any sort of plan B?

Tiddlypomtiddlypom · 30/06/2023 07:01

Why are posters being arses to the OP and competitive with her? She’s full-term, she clearly lives rurally, her H is two hours away and she’s clearly anxious. I think that’s fair enough.

Can we try to stop being dicks to pregnant women?

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Clearbrightwater · 30/06/2023 07:46

@Tiddlypomtiddlypom thanks! I’m not even particularly anxious. Just conscious I’d be stuck if something had been happening. Dh is a bit of a pain like this, if he gets into something then the world ceases to exist and at the moment that can’t happen.

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BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 30/06/2023 07:51

If you are in labour and he isn't answering his phone you ring the office itself and ask someone to send him home.

All other messages and calls are non urgent so he will reply when he can.

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Clearbrightwater · 30/06/2023 07:52

Not quite that simple, but thank you.

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