Prince Harry's brought another view to giving birth

[Boffing]

I've just realised that my DH of 22 years has never thanked me for going through that (x3).

I thought it was heart-warming to see how happy and excited he was!

Give the guy a break, negative nellies!!!! We all feel like we're the only people in the world to have ever done this when we have our first baby. Get real.

Ordinarygirl I think it reads more like Kipling 😉

My Dh did and was quite terrified by the barbarity of it. I know is natural but terrifying

He didn't actually thank her , he said she and all women are bloody marvellous to push a baby out.

It wasn't a thanks, it was admiration.

ForalltheSaints
I hope so too, and particularly my dh , who saw the interview. It probably never struck him ( dh) or other men.

Agree and it seemed genuine admiration.

He was still swinging from cloud 9 so I don't think he was in any fit state for the stiff upper lip well rehearsed speech we usually see!

The happiness and pride was beaming right out of his face. It was ace.
Fuck the miserable cunts Jesus Christ there are more and more round here every day where have they come from? Perpetual inability to conjure up a well wish for anyone or anything it's fucking grinding.

Just a bodily function?!!! WTH...
Well there is a big difference between trying to shit a Courgette and a Fricking Marrow!

I have no strong feelings either way about the royal family but I can’t begrudge a happy new father given the opportunity to say nice things about it on tv. If you can’t be gushy on the day your child is born when can you? It’s normal to think a miraculous thing has happened, even though it’s a normal part of animal existence

My DH was horrified at how violent and primal it all was, and said 'Bloody hell you are NEVER going through that again!!!!'.

Other than that I got wine gums. :)

(and a couple of years later a much-desired and deeply-appreciated eternity ring.)

i thought he was lovely in what he said-now they should be left alone till their ready

BambooFibre

But I see the usual Reddit and Tumblr royal sycophants have arrived to lick royal arse and get yet another thread deleted as they all usually go

Fucking always...it's so bloody tedious!

I saw his piece for the camera and asked DH why he didn't say anything that nice about me

Mine has never said anything nice full stop

It’s like having a poo at the end of the day. Nothing amazing about it, animals do it every single day without the drama but because we’re human it’s amazing? Nah - just another bodily function I’m afraid

Because humans are uniquely badly designed for giving birth. We have narrow pelvises, because we walk upright. But our heads are large, to accommodate our disproportionately large brains. The combination of the baby’s large head and the mother’s narrow pelvis makes childbirth significantly more dangerous for humans than for other animals. This situation has worsened over the last 10,000 years because we have moved from a lean hunter-gatherer diet to a carbohydrate rich farming revolution diet, and this means we are giving birth to larger babies. But our pelvises aren’t evolving to be wider, because modern medicine (thankfully) interferes with natural selection of large pelvises.

So... it’s not women making a fuss about a biological function. It’s that humans are not the same as other mammals; our biology is bad for giving birth.

I thought Harry's speech was lovely. He was radiating happiness and admiration. Good lad.

Dh made me my post-labour brew in my wonder woman mug, because he thought I was. I liked that a lot.

Thanks are just words. I'd personally prefer a partner, birth partner and father to our DC who supported me through a traumatic birth, held up my leg when I was numb and unfeeling after an epidural, didn't bat an eyelid over the blood, shit, and other unpleasantries of the process, was a completely hands-on dad and took on some of the key components of child-rearing, took our DC early morning every day when I was exhausted after breastfeeding all night, did all the bathtimes until I stopped feeding at 18 months, looked after me when I was off my feet after a c-section, and probably most importantly, kept his mother at arm's length when she tried to insist on being present at the birth despite the fact that we'd been together nearly a decade and she barely knew me!

Seeing all that in typeface brings it home to me that DH really is a keeper. I can't remember whether or not he thanked me in words; I reckon the odds are good he probably didn't. But as far as actions are concerned, I consider myself very fortunate!

... Bearing in mind there are many men who feel they should be thanked for 'helping you with the washing up' or 'babysitting' their own children.

Not the decent ones obviously

I must make a note next time I have a poo that makes me vomit 10-50 times a day for 8 months, weighs 10 and a half pounds and leaves me with thyroiditis and 27 stitches.

He is just radiating happiness right now.

Hope it sticks

Lovely speech. Am not a royalist by any stretch, grabs but I like Harry a lot. Whoever feels the need to shit on someone else's happiness gets short shrift from me, schadenfreudig is never a good look. Thomas Markle's statement was nice - shame he gave it to the Sun. But yes, I like new babies, so sue me

I was told - "That was easy wasn't it". No wonder I cannot stand even the memory of him!!

Perch you were obviously so good at it you made it look effortless

A poo doesn’t take me two days and I don’t haemorrhage afterwards and have to stay in hospital for a week.

Stealth boast PJMasks?