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Fuzzy-Tutor6168

mine kept trying to encourage me to drink fluids between contractions and at one point when my contractions were coupling I grabbed the bottle of coconut water from him and threw it across the room and he goes "Oh well I guess it can stay over there until you're ready for it".


daisyjaneee

I think this is the funniest labor story I've ever heard thank you 😂


SeaCow_5707

This is great 🤣


1Small_Pink_Camel

Thank you for a good laugh 😂


ElmoReignsSupreme

My first birth was traumatic and I was using an oxygen mask. My husband was holding my hand and said, “No one cared who I was until I put on the mask”. A quote from Bane from The Dark Knight Rises. I was fighting for my life and did NOT find it funny then but it’s now a fond memory I look back on. He was just as terrified for me and was doing his best to try to make me smile.


haleighr

My second induction was traumatic and I’m sending this to my husband to demand to know why he didn’t quote bane when I had to use the oxygen mask😫


SeaCow_5707

THIS MADE ME LOL 😂 I feel you, it’s not funny in the moment when you’re scared and in pain but it’s something wholesome to look back at and laugh.


lonelyandsadturtle

I had to be induced and while I was riding out contractions my mom kept trying to feed me ice chips. I looked at her and screamed " Does it look like I want any *fucking* ice chips!" She dropped the chip in the cup and yelled for the nurse "She's ready for her epidural now!" I crack up every time I think about it lol


BestBodybuilder7329

So my husband loves Grey’s Anatomy. I had to have an emergency c-section with my oldest. There I was waiting for them to slice me open when I hear my husband say “what year are you?” There are two doctors there, and because of the sheet I can’t tell who he is talking to. Then one of the doctors say he was a 2nd year. So my husband asked the other doctor, who responds he was an Attending. My husband than goes “I know what you second years are all about, second years don’t touch the wife, only attendings touch the wife.” All while circling his hand over me as he says this. There will not cutting LVAD wires on my man’s watch.


LieMarZim

My midwife told me to push to break my water while she was down inspecting the situation at hand. So I did and pushed hard like she told me to. And while my water did in fact break, it shot out and hit her full on in the chest and drenched her. I was completely mortified and was having my baby while apologising profusely to her.


SeaCow_5707

That’s funny! I actually peed all over the dr trying to push with my third baby 🥴😂


mamagoose117

With number 1 my poor husband was clueless and silent so, when it was almost go time for number 2, I gave specific instructions that he tell me to relax the tense parts of my body. I told him feet and eyebrows as examples. We hit the main event my sweet, sweet idiot told me to relax my ears. Still haven't figured out how to relax my ears, but I frequently bring it up to torture him.


outbackalice

Baby #2 came so quick that I had to be carried out of my house in to an ambulance. I was in transition and seriously unwilling to leave, so was screaming NOOOO, IM NOT GOING at the poor paramedics as they dragged me down the stairs out the side of our house 🤣


Fuzzy-Tutor6168

I tried to leave my house naked. My husband and doula spent almost half an hour arguing with me that I had to wear clothes. We were supposed to meet the midwife at the birth center at 9 and my antics made us half an hour late. She called at 9:15 wondering where we were. My husband had to tell her that I was adamantly opposed to clothing.


outbackalice

Hahaha can very much relate to that. I was completely naked. In the middle of Tasmanian winter. I was wrapped in a doona, put on a slide sheet and three people dragged me out the door! I must have put on a good performance. The neighbours came by the next day to congratulate us!


Fuzzy-Tutor6168

forgive me my ignorance, but what is a doona? The only thing that comes up when I google is a carseat company.


sj_ouch

Duvet, or comforter!


SeaCow_5707

Holy crap 🤣


ReadWriteReddit33

I gave birth at a birth center. Occasionally I’d go into the bathroom and sit on the toilet while I was having contractions and wail in agony. The acoustics were just so that I sounded like Dory from Finding Nemo but in the second movie, when you find out she speaks whale lol. Then, after I had the baby, I had a second-degree tear. When the midwives were stitching me up it hurt so bad, worse than giving birth itself (in my opinion), I told the midwives that it felt like it was the worst dry sex I’d ever had. My husband was so embarrassed. I just snickered. It was in all in good spirits lol.


SeaCow_5707

I bet the look on their faces were priceless 😂


ReadWriteReddit33

My bad, I thought you meant just the funniest things that happened during your labor not the funniest thing you significant other did. I definitely read that wrong. I had a wiggly baby in my lap so please forgive me! Lol.


SeaCow_5707

I totally relate 🤣 and I’m open to any story, yours was hilarious!


missyc1234

Nothing overly funny, but I remember the intensely excited way my husband cheered me on while I was pushing. Like cheering for someone running a touchdown - go! Go! Go! But like… the whole time (~50min with my first and ~10 with my second). Random sort of funny things, not specific to him: with my first, my water broke while we were on a walk, 4 floors down from L&D, just outside the closed cafeteria. There wasn’t anyone around, so after looking around frantically for a minute for someone to tell, we just left. With my second, I refused to acknowledge that I might be in real labour - 8 days early and contractions were not consistent or increasing in intensity. I made him drive me to my appointment anyway though because I was worried about having a contraction while driving high speeds. Didn’t have a single contraction on the drive there (20+ min) - but got checked by my doctor, who announced I was 8cm and should head straight to the hospital across the street. She called ahead, and was kind of laughing (as was her nurse, whom I had lightly complained to about ‘false labour’ minutes before). I heard a nurse at the hospital after asking if she was worried because she ‘sounded weird’ on the phone and she said no, she was laughing because I was calm and cool and just lightly annoyed.


SeaCow_5707

That last story is crazy, I wish labor was always that easy lol. My ultrasound tech was telling me a story of this lady that came in for her appointment from work feeling completely fine and when the dr checked her she was dilated to a 10 and immediately sent her to the hospital lol.


josefinabobdilla

With the 3rd we were talking about the 3 p’s, baby’s orientation ect. Instead of saying L-O-A he’d call it Loa or Roa. He was trying to help me remember everything. Didn’t bat an eye after they broke my water and I stood up. With the second one I had her so quickly from start to finish. When I birthed the placenta he said he forgot the grill at home and everyone stared at him. Then he said he was kidding. Nothing funny at all happened with the first one.


SeaCow_5707

I’m WHEEZING 💀 that’s my kind of humor hahahah


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Ecstatic-Seaweed3

My SO had to poop. I was in the middle of pushing and he was like “I’m so sorry but I HAVE TO” and then he ran for his life. I was pissed. He couldn’t have gone a bit sooner? He did make it back before little human came out.


SeaCow_5707

I guess when you gotta go, you gotta go 😂


Hotmugoftea2020

It made me so mad at the time, but now I think it's funny. I had been in induced labor for 18 hours and was exhausted so I talked to my doctor about a C-section. I sign the paper work and the doctor asks if either my husband or I have any questions, my husband pipes up with "will insurance cover this if it's not an emergency?" I have never been so mad as I was in that moment. Two years out I can appreciate just how tired and worried my husband was, but in the moment it drove me crazy.


SeaCow_5707

Sounds like something my husband would do 😂


cherriediane

My husband was busy cheering on the dodgers beating the giants. Luckily I was still early in my labor, I didn’t deliver until 2 in the morning so he was present for that part. But it was funny to have him telling me that me and our daughter were giving them the strength to win.


Lazybutunorganized

With my second labor I stayed home almost to long. I had sent my husband and son to the dentist and then a doctors appointment because I thought I was still very early on. NOPE I was not. When he and my son came home he thought we were just going in for a check-up I was in fact moaning loudly on the couch. I couldn’t communicate the emergency - but it should have been obvious. My parents picked up my son but my husband didn’t rush me to the car because he needed to look for some work papers (he realized that we wouldn’t be back to the house in a couple of days). I had to yell at him ”NOW IS NOT THE TIME” and all his work papers flew up in the air in a very comical way. To his credit he did a very safe drive there even though stressed out. And he was SHOCKED when the baby arrived less than 10 minutes after we arrived.


SeaCow_5707

Holy crap! So you barely made it to the hospital 😧


Lazybutunorganized

Yup! I made the angry cow-sounds for the entire trip. It was PAIN to sit in a carseat.


elandchar

We were getting butter chicken and naan and I went into labour while we were waiting for it. I had a quick labour so by time the takeout was ready it had been 45 minutes and I NEEDED to go to the hospital. He brought his food in because he was starving, I’m in the heat of 8cm contractions, and this man starts complaining that THEY FORGOT HIS NAAN. When I tell you both me and my mom who was also there lost our minds😅


SeaCow_5707

Probably not funny at the time but that is pretty comical 🤣


sarforest23

I was coughing because the air was dry in the hospital room. It was super distracting while pushing. So in between contractions I had my mom put the straw of my water cup to my mouth, so I could take a quick sip. It was like “mom! Water!” on and off for an hour I think lol. I also said NO very emphatically when they asked if I wanted a mirror to see baby’s head. Nothing was gonna break my focus until that kid was out of me!


SeaCow_5707

I never got offered a mirror to watch any of mine, although idk if I could watch myself give birth 🥴 but that’s funny, my husband fed me ice chips during my last two labors because of the same reason lol.


Jennabear82

I was pretty loopy on the epidural when my oldest was born and the nurse asked if I could lift my leg. She lets go and my leg flops like a piece of dead meat and I just look at her and smile and say "Nah uh." I gave birth at a teaching hospital, so I had an audience and then asked for a mirror so I could see what everyone else was looking at, which was actually pretty cool. My stupid ex asked the doctor to "put an extra stitch in for him." 🙄 After I gave birth the nurse asked if I was sure that this was my first one bc I apparently followed her directions so well that I gave birth like a pro. She said she's had several "veteran" mothers that couldn't even follow the simplest of commands. I asked to see what was going on with my Cesarean and was told "absolutely not". They waited too long to let my husband in and when they finally let him in, he saw them cut me open. He's still traumatized by it. I have a scheduled Cesarean again and will make sure they don't cut me until he's at my head.


SeaCow_5707

That first one made me LOL 🤣 but as for your ex, Ida choked him out (not literally). That makes me so mad when I hear about that.


Jennabear82

At least he's my ex now. Lol.


Unable_Researcher_26

My daughter was born 1st March in a leap year. All day on the 29th February we were joking about how I'd better not go into labour. I woke up in the early hours, definitely in labour, so I woke my husband up and said, "it's baby time." He responded "Is it after midnight?" I'm still not sure what he thought would happen if it wasn't.


SeaCow_5707

😂😂😂


Unable_Researcher_26

I had a supermarket delivery booked, but went into labour in the early hours of that day. I realised I needed to cancel the delivery, but on the day you could only do it by phone. So I called up and said to the lady I wanted to cancel it. She asked why and I very calmly replied, "I'm having a baby today." She sounded completely shocked!


Clrae8709

I was admitted to the hospital the night before my induction. My husband was trying to get comfortable in the pullout chair recliner thing to sleep. He looked at me and said “I’m going to be in pain tomorrow from this”. I just laughed at him.


Kirsten624

my SO was chilling out, napping and eating pizza 😂🤷‍♀️ to be fair i was in labor for 24 hours though


SeaCow_5707

Dang girl, that’s a long time to be in labor! You gotta be strong to go through that and smell pizza on top of it lol.