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Guy Thinks It’s Funny To Pull A Prank On Wife In Labor, Finds Out What’s It Like To Lose A Family
Labor is painful, stressful, and emotionally overwhelming, to say the least. That’s why it’s crucial to communicate your needs and boundaries with your partner in advance, ensuring they’re there to support you when you need it most. But what happens when your better half disrespects those wishes and turns such an important moment into a joke?
A woman shared how her husband, inspired by TikTok prank videos, pulled a fart joke during her labor despite promising not to. Outraged by his disregard for her boundaries, she kicked him out of the delivery room and endured the final hours of labor on her own. Keep reading to see how this family drama unfolded and the reactions it sparked.
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Women need a tremendous amount of support during labor to navigate the physical pain, emotional stress, and overwhelming nature of childbirth
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A woman shared how she decided to move out with her newborn after her husband pulled a disrespectful prank during her delivery
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Family support plays a critical role when a woman is about to deliver a baby, offering emotional stability and practical help
Growing a baby inside you is a monumental task. The nine months of pregnancy are filled with anticipation, joy, and, let’s be honest, a fair share of discomforts. From morning sickness to swollen feet, it’s a rollercoaster ride that requires immense strength and resilience.
Now, delivering the baby is a whole other adventure. A woman’s body undergoes incredible changes to bring new life into the world. It’s a process that demands not only physical endurance but also mental fortitude.
The stress during delivery is no joke. Studies have shown that approximately 4.7% of mothers experience birth-related post-traumatic stress disorder. This highlights the importance of providing adequate support to mothers during childbirth.
Family support during this time is crucial. Having loved ones present can provide emotional comfort and practical assistance, making the experience more manageable. The World Health Organization strongly recommends supporting women to have a chosen companion during labor and childbirth, as it can improve both their experience and health outcomes
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Failing to support your partner during labor is a major misstep that can damage trust and the relationship deeply
Emotional support from family can alleviate anxiety and provide a sense of security. Knowing that someone you trust is by your side can make a significant difference in how you perceive and cope with the challenges of childbirth.
Practical assistance is equally important. Family members can help with tasks such as communicating with medical staff, providing comfort measures, and ensuring that the mother’s needs are met promptly.
Moreover, continuous support during labor has been associated with improved outcomes for both mother and baby. This includes shorter labor durations, reduced need for medical interventions, and higher satisfaction with the birth experience
It’s also worth noting that the presence of a supportive companion can reduce the likelihood of negative birth experiences. Women who feel supported are less likely to report feelings of trauma related to childbirth.
While childbirth is undeniably a challenging experience, the support of family can make all the difference in easing stress and fostering positive outcomes. It’s a time when empathy, patience, and understanding are crucial. But in this particular case, the woman’s husband thought it was a good idea to prank her during labor, a moment that demands respect and care.
As a woman, how would you feel if someone pulled a prank on you during one of the most intense and vulnerable moments of your life? Would you brush it off, or would it feel like a breach of trust? Share your thoughts, we’d love to hear your perspective.
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People online pointed out how labor can be incredibly overwhelming, and felt the husband was being insensitive
What do you think ?
Bookworm 8 months ago
This is from 4 years ago. 6 months ago OP did a new post on name ideas for baby boys. She mentioned a partner that time. Hopefully partner instead of husband means she divorced this man child and has a supportive partner now.
Wild Cream 8 months ago
Thanks for looking that up, that makes me happy. The update in this post is heartbreaking, the hubby in this post is immature af and this is a horrible way to treat someone who just gave birth
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Paul C 8 months ago
They were married and he still said "his roof" and things "he paid for". That tells you all you need to know.
Racing Tadpole 8 months ago
sulking for a week is a sign of a vindictive twit, probably a narcissistic idiot...leave and don't look back
Kate Johnson 8 months ago
I think this guy is an a*****e narcissist that will be a horrible father as he is a horrible husband. I'd be done with him entirely.
Trillian 8 months ago
If he is watching TikToks about pranking and then pouting like a toddler maybe he is not mature enough to be a father.
Sue Denham 8 months ago
In what world is it appropriate to prank a woman in labour? I think she made a wise choice in leaving.
Agat 8 months ago
Did he treat the birth as some kind of achievement for him? What gives him the *right* to be there, exactly? It's entirely up to the woman, it's not like the man has to do - or is entitled to - anything. I don't understand it, he acts like it was somehow his right to be there, and some of the commenters sound like it too. It's good that she left. No good husband/father would stop taking care of a newborn just because he didn't get to see it being born (or cut the umbilical cord). This is ridiculous, and I'm glad she left him.
Deborah B 8 months ago
Dude could have sent an apology through the nurses any time during those four hours, and asked to be let back in. If you read the room wrong, and hurt or anger someone with something that was meant as a joke, and you are actually a decent, mature human being, you feel bad for hurting them, and you apologise. Not apologising was worth more to him than being there for the birth of his child.
Jenna Kay 8 months ago
Absolutely. His pride was more important to him that being a good partner. And then the whole cold shoulder thing, because he couldn't accept he had done something wrong. Clearly he didn't see her as someone worthy of his respect.
Load More Replies... Moira 8 months ago
Oh, my goodness... Two of my sisters had to go on labor during pandemic. They didn't allow ANYONE on the room, so they had to be alone and knew beforehand. They cried so, so much. Their SO tried to keep it up, because they didn't want to make it worse, but in private talks both of them cried about not being able to be there too. And this idiot removed himself from the room by making stupid pranks he saw in tiktok? Are you a frigging moron? And after that, instead of apologising, he doble down it? Sorry, so sorry for OP, finding who her husband was that way...
Jenna Kay 8 months ago
At least she learned early on and had a chance to find a better situation instead of living with someone who had the audacity to say things like "under my roof" and "things I paid for" ... that is just beyond petty to say when you are married and are supposed to be a partnership!
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Ellen Townsend 8 months ago
BP: Since it has now been 3 years since this terrible situation, would try to reach the OP and get an update? We would really like to know if this was able to be salvaged at all and if so, how.
The_Nicest_Misanthrope 8 months ago
Hope someone farted in this guy's face. Pathetic little man child.
Little Bit 8 months ago
NTA. He did exactly what you asked him not to do. He crossed a line and now he's turned it around to make it all your fault. This is a massive red flag. He is a narcissist and will never change. You're better off out of it.
tori Ohno 8 months ago
HIS house. HIS belongings because he paid for them? Guess what? Divorce court will force him to hand over 1/2 of it, if not more because she's unemployed and needs to get back into the job market. She's just a thing to him. I'd post something worse but they'll bleep it out. His disrespect is disgusting.
The Starsong Princess 8 months ago
For some men, the lack of centrality around the birth of a baby can cause them to behave badly. Up until then, they seem like they are great goys but that’s because everything is about them. Their preferences are catered to, they are constantly supported and their feelings are managed. But when their partner is in labor and the new baby come, it’s not about them. It’s about their partner in the new baby so they act out like spoiled children. In this case the tell comes from how his mother behaved . She’s used to him being central so of course she’ll defend him. Sometimes they get over this and sometimes you just have a manchild that you have to deal with..
Kyra Noelle 8 months ago
What did he mean by his daughter will hate her for him not being there? 1 how would the daughter know? 2 if the mom told the story she may just be mad at the dad for being a d1ckhead.
Seedy Vine 8 months ago
Prank videos should be illegal. They do nothing but encourage abùse toward women.
Janelle Collard 8 months ago
This is like 100 levels above smashing cake into your bride's face. Dude deserved to be thrown out. And to *still* be pouting a week later? Dude's a toddler + has no business fathering children.
JoNo 8 months ago
My father wasn't in the delivery room at my birth. Why? He wasn't allowed to! It was a rule of that generation that husbands had no need to be there so after taking my mother to the hospital he went home to await the phone call saying I'd been born. The stringent rules had eased by when I was born, for my father was able to visit my mother when she was on the ward and hold me. That was a first. I was baby #4 and the only child he was allowed to hold in hospital. With my brother and sisters he could not visit my mother or hold the baby. That had to wait until they were home to happen.
Betsy S 8 months ago
My step-dad was the first father in the delivery room in my entire city (1968). Prior to that, they waited in the waiting room for the cue to hand out cigars.
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White Sauce Hot Sauce 8 months ago
He farted. Not only did it affect the medically weakened wife that was passing a whole human through her, but it's also distracting to the medical team that's looking after her. He cares more about TikTok clout than the health & safety of his wife and child.
Sue 8 months ago
Put his nuts in a vise & tell him jokes & see if he thinks they're funny. Maybe women should be allowed to squeeze their huband's nuts while they are in labor so they can feel it when she feels it.
Betsy S 8 months ago
I read something a while ago that in one of the Asian countries there can be a rope/string tied around the father's equipment and when she's having a contraction she pulls on the tether so he feels the contraction too. Probably just a controlled experiment but I LOVE the justice of it.
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Fellfromthemoon 8 months ago
Imagine a reversed scenario: hubby goes for a procedure, and one of the healthcare workers starts clowning around in the operating theatre.
Betsy S 8 months ago
Or cracking jokes while he's mid-vasectomy (fully awake).
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Schmebulock 8 months ago
I highly doubt the prank at the birth was the first time he was a POS. She should never have married and had a kid with him.
JayWantsACat 8 months ago
"it's just a joke/prank!" And that's the issue. You couldn't stop yourself from doing something as simple and dumb as a prank/joke. And it is just a joke, TO YOU. It's everything else that went into deciding to still pull a prank when asked not to, in tough moment, and then doubling down like YOU"RE the victim in all this. You did this to yourself because you couldn't respect your partner and not "pull a joke". IDIOT.
Megan Romero-Herman 8 months ago
I wouldn’t ever stay with a person who deliberately did something that I made extremely clear I was not ok with! Especially during a stressful time like childbirth! I never understood my phone man seem to think that jokes are somehow OK even when you’ve already established that you were not cool with them
Andrea Clare 2 months ago
I had a baby before the Internet age. Coulldn't get intantaneous feedback back then. My labor experience with my husband (who later became my ex husband) was questionable. But after giving birth I noticed that someone had notated on my chart that he was non-supportive. It only took me about 18 months and 2 competent therapists to break away from that bad situation. This was the mid 80's. Single parenthood as a way if life was "new." Not an easy path to navigate. But easier than the one I would have had to navigate if I had stayed.
Kate Johnson 6 months ago
The baby will not hate her for kicking him out of her birth, but she will hate him for destroying her family. He thought it was bad to miss the birth. Now he will be missing at least half of his kids life. This guy is too stupid to parent or be married. He should go back home and live with his mommy. He's a completely worthless POS.
Catherine Kane 7 months ago
the YTA guy is wrong and entitled besides. husband was told not to "prank" her while she was in labor and chose to do it anyway. the husband is supposed to protect her, not play crappy jokes that aren't funny FAFO
Ronnie Beaton 7 months ago
I have to wonder, does OP not have any male relations - uncles, cousins, brothers etc.? Large gentlemen who could quietly take husband aside and beat the living c**p out of him for such an idiotic and disrespectful act.
Miss Ann Thrope 7 months ago
When someone says "Can't you take a joke?" The answer should be, "If you're so funny, why are you the only one laughing?" He is childish. Putting a prank ahead of being respectful of his wife. Then he calls her names afterwards? And I'll wager this isn't the first time he's behave like this. Just this time he went too far. Don't blame her for nopeing out of the marriage.
Mark Childers 8 months ago
It seems like a lot of people marry people they don't really like. No one who loves someone would do something like that.
DC 8 months ago
This went out of hand too far, too quick. Too far and too quick to allow for believing it was the only issue ever, the others just went unresolved, maybe unrecognized, maybe unresolved as a result of never being taken serious. And ... seems it's good that such a catalyst of an event happens at times, as it helps to resolve the things that were overdue. Be them known or unknown to us general audience, they're there, unresolved. And as it reads like OP has a partner now whom she don't refer to as husband, seems she upgraded the then-vacant positions' inhabitant. Good, that!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
I was with my now-ex for nearly a decade before he "showed his true colors". He got comfortable with me and the relationship and relaxed the mask. Unfortunately, not everyone displays themselves as "no-husband" or "no-wife" material the second you meet them. Many people are skilled at deception.
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Clown fish 8 months ago
YTA means you are calling the writer of the post and A.r..s..e hole
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Mi So 8 months ago
It’s not about a fart joke; it’s about deliberately going against a reasonable request (no pranks during labour), while his wife was in pain, exhausted, & at her absolute most vulnerable, when support was needed. Then after, he didn’t help with the baby, didn’t speak to her, & continued to show his true colours. He’d been told “no pranks”, he pranked anyway, deeming that more important than his wife’s feelings, & more important than the birth experience. FAFO
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Miriam Insidecor 8 months ago
All he had to do was apologise and he would have been let back in. He didn't and therefore it's his own pride and immaturity that made him miss the birth.
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Bookworm 8 months ago
This is from 4 years ago. 6 months ago OP did a new post on name ideas for baby boys. She mentioned a partner that time. Hopefully partner instead of husband means she divorced this man child and has a supportive partner now.
Wild Cream 8 months ago
Thanks for looking that up, that makes me happy. The update in this post is heartbreaking, the hubby in this post is immature af and this is a horrible way to treat someone who just gave birth
Load More Replies... Paul C 8 months ago
They were married and he still said "his roof" and things "he paid for". That tells you all you need to know.
Racing Tadpole 8 months ago
sulking for a week is a sign of a vindictive twit, probably a narcissistic idiot...leave and don't look back
Kate Johnson 8 months ago
I think this guy is an a*****e narcissist that will be a horrible father as he is a horrible husband. I'd be done with him entirely.
Trillian 8 months ago
If he is watching TikToks about pranking and then pouting like a toddler maybe he is not mature enough to be a father.
Sue Denham 8 months ago
In what world is it appropriate to prank a woman in labour? I think she made a wise choice in leaving.
Agat 8 months ago
Did he treat the birth as some kind of achievement for him? What gives him the *right* to be there, exactly? It's entirely up to the woman, it's not like the man has to do - or is entitled to - anything. I don't understand it, he acts like it was somehow his right to be there, and some of the commenters sound like it too. It's good that she left. No good husband/father would stop taking care of a newborn just because he didn't get to see it being born (or cut the umbilical cord). This is ridiculous, and I'm glad she left him.
Deborah B 8 months ago
Dude could have sent an apology through the nurses any time during those four hours, and asked to be let back in. If you read the room wrong, and hurt or anger someone with something that was meant as a joke, and you are actually a decent, mature human being, you feel bad for hurting them, and you apologise. Not apologising was worth more to him than being there for the birth of his child.
Jenna Kay 8 months ago
Absolutely. His pride was more important to him that being a good partner. And then the whole cold shoulder thing, because he couldn't accept he had done something wrong. Clearly he didn't see her as someone worthy of his respect.
Load More Replies... Moira 8 months ago
Oh, my goodness... Two of my sisters had to go on labor during pandemic. They didn't allow ANYONE on the room, so they had to be alone and knew beforehand. They cried so, so much. Their SO tried to keep it up, because they didn't want to make it worse, but in private talks both of them cried about not being able to be there too. And this idiot removed himself from the room by making stupid pranks he saw in tiktok? Are you a frigging moron? And after that, instead of apologising, he doble down it? Sorry, so sorry for OP, finding who her husband was that way...
Jenna Kay 8 months ago
At least she learned early on and had a chance to find a better situation instead of living with someone who had the audacity to say things like "under my roof" and "things I paid for" ... that is just beyond petty to say when you are married and are supposed to be a partnership!
Load More Replies... Ellen Townsend 8 months ago
BP: Since it has now been 3 years since this terrible situation, would try to reach the OP and get an update? We would really like to know if this was able to be salvaged at all and if so, how.
The_Nicest_Misanthrope 8 months ago
Hope someone farted in this guy's face. Pathetic little man child.
Little Bit 8 months ago
NTA. He did exactly what you asked him not to do. He crossed a line and now he's turned it around to make it all your fault. This is a massive red flag. He is a narcissist and will never change. You're better off out of it.
tori Ohno 8 months ago
HIS house. HIS belongings because he paid for them? Guess what? Divorce court will force him to hand over 1/2 of it, if not more because she's unemployed and needs to get back into the job market. She's just a thing to him. I'd post something worse but they'll bleep it out. His disrespect is disgusting.
The Starsong Princess 8 months ago
For some men, the lack of centrality around the birth of a baby can cause them to behave badly. Up until then, they seem like they are great goys but that’s because everything is about them. Their preferences are catered to, they are constantly supported and their feelings are managed. But when their partner is in labor and the new baby come, it’s not about them. It’s about their partner in the new baby so they act out like spoiled children. In this case the tell comes from how his mother behaved . She’s used to him being central so of course she’ll defend him. Sometimes they get over this and sometimes you just have a manchild that you have to deal with..
Kyra Noelle 8 months ago
What did he mean by his daughter will hate her for him not being there? 1 how would the daughter know? 2 if the mom told the story she may just be mad at the dad for being a d1ckhead.
Seedy Vine 8 months ago
Prank videos should be illegal. They do nothing but encourage abùse toward women.
Janelle Collard 8 months ago
This is like 100 levels above smashing cake into your bride's face. Dude deserved to be thrown out. And to *still* be pouting a week later? Dude's a toddler + has no business fathering children.
JoNo 8 months ago
My father wasn't in the delivery room at my birth. Why? He wasn't allowed to! It was a rule of that generation that husbands had no need to be there so after taking my mother to the hospital he went home to await the phone call saying I'd been born. The stringent rules had eased by when I was born, for my father was able to visit my mother when she was on the ward and hold me. That was a first. I was baby #4 and the only child he was allowed to hold in hospital. With my brother and sisters he could not visit my mother or hold the baby. That had to wait until they were home to happen.
Betsy S 8 months ago
My step-dad was the first father in the delivery room in my entire city (1968). Prior to that, they waited in the waiting room for the cue to hand out cigars.
Load More Replies... White Sauce Hot Sauce 8 months ago
He farted. Not only did it affect the medically weakened wife that was passing a whole human through her, but it's also distracting to the medical team that's looking after her. He cares more about TikTok clout than the health & safety of his wife and child.
Sue 8 months ago
Put his nuts in a vise & tell him jokes & see if he thinks they're funny. Maybe women should be allowed to squeeze their huband's nuts while they are in labor so they can feel it when she feels it.
Betsy S 8 months ago
I read something a while ago that in one of the Asian countries there can be a rope/string tied around the father's equipment and when she's having a contraction she pulls on the tether so he feels the contraction too. Probably just a controlled experiment but I LOVE the justice of it.
Load More Replies... Fellfromthemoon 8 months ago
Imagine a reversed scenario: hubby goes for a procedure, and one of the healthcare workers starts clowning around in the operating theatre.
Betsy S 8 months ago
Or cracking jokes while he's mid-vasectomy (fully awake).
Load More Replies... Schmebulock 8 months ago
I highly doubt the prank at the birth was the first time he was a POS. She should never have married and had a kid with him.
JayWantsACat 8 months ago
"it's just a joke/prank!" And that's the issue. You couldn't stop yourself from doing something as simple and dumb as a prank/joke. And it is just a joke, TO YOU. It's everything else that went into deciding to still pull a prank when asked not to, in tough moment, and then doubling down like YOU"RE the victim in all this. You did this to yourself because you couldn't respect your partner and not "pull a joke". IDIOT.
Megan Romero-Herman 8 months ago
I wouldn’t ever stay with a person who deliberately did something that I made extremely clear I was not ok with! Especially during a stressful time like childbirth! I never understood my phone man seem to think that jokes are somehow OK even when you’ve already established that you were not cool with them
Andrea Clare 2 months ago
I had a baby before the Internet age. Coulldn't get intantaneous feedback back then. My labor experience with my husband (who later became my ex husband) was questionable. But after giving birth I noticed that someone had notated on my chart that he was non-supportive. It only took me about 18 months and 2 competent therapists to break away from that bad situation. This was the mid 80's. Single parenthood as a way if life was "new." Not an easy path to navigate. But easier than the one I would have had to navigate if I had stayed.
Kate Johnson 6 months ago
The baby will not hate her for kicking him out of her birth, but she will hate him for destroying her family. He thought it was bad to miss the birth. Now he will be missing at least half of his kids life. This guy is too stupid to parent or be married. He should go back home and live with his mommy. He's a completely worthless POS.
Catherine Kane 7 months ago
the YTA guy is wrong and entitled besides. husband was told not to "prank" her while she was in labor and chose to do it anyway. the husband is supposed to protect her, not play crappy jokes that aren't funny FAFO
Ronnie Beaton 7 months ago
I have to wonder, does OP not have any male relations - uncles, cousins, brothers etc.? Large gentlemen who could quietly take husband aside and beat the living c**p out of him for such an idiotic and disrespectful act.
Miss Ann Thrope 7 months ago
When someone says "Can't you take a joke?" The answer should be, "If you're so funny, why are you the only one laughing?" He is childish. Putting a prank ahead of being respectful of his wife. Then he calls her names afterwards? And I'll wager this isn't the first time he's behave like this. Just this time he went too far. Don't blame her for nopeing out of the marriage.
Mark Childers 8 months ago
It seems like a lot of people marry people they don't really like. No one who loves someone would do something like that.
DC 8 months ago
This went out of hand too far, too quick. Too far and too quick to allow for believing it was the only issue ever, the others just went unresolved, maybe unrecognized, maybe unresolved as a result of never being taken serious. And ... seems it's good that such a catalyst of an event happens at times, as it helps to resolve the things that were overdue. Be them known or unknown to us general audience, they're there, unresolved. And as it reads like OP has a partner now whom she don't refer to as husband, seems she upgraded the then-vacant positions' inhabitant. Good, that!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
I was with my now-ex for nearly a decade before he "showed his true colors". He got comfortable with me and the relationship and relaxed the mask. Unfortunately, not everyone displays themselves as "no-husband" or "no-wife" material the second you meet them. Many people are skilled at deception.
Load More Replies... Clown fish 8 months ago
YTA means you are calling the writer of the post and A.r..s..e hole
Load More Replies... Mi So 8 months ago
It’s not about a fart joke; it’s about deliberately going against a reasonable request (no pranks during labour), while his wife was in pain, exhausted, & at her absolute most vulnerable, when support was needed. Then after, he didn’t help with the baby, didn’t speak to her, & continued to show his true colours. He’d been told “no pranks”, he pranked anyway, deeming that more important than his wife’s feelings, & more important than the birth experience. FAFO
Load More Replies... Miriam Insidecor 8 months ago
All he had to do was apologise and he would have been let back in. He didn't and therefore it's his own pride and immaturity that made him miss the birth.
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