'I haven’t met a dad yet who missed that moment of their child’s birth and didn’t later regret it.'
My spouse and I are expecting our first kid. It’s still pretty early, not yet the second trimester, but we’re having some tension about what delivery will look like. I know that you can only prepare, not plan, but no matter what happens or what birth looks like, I want my spouse there with me. He’s been a great source of comfort and support through the pregnancy, but he has some trepidation about being “the person in the room.
We have many more conversations yet to come, so I was hoping for some outside perspective about how to navigate them. While I realize that the considerations of the birth partner matter, I also have this critical little voice in my head saying that this is a profoundly vulnerable and challenging event in a birthing person’s life.
So, let me start off very gingerly here: I have some information about the expectant father and his beliefs here and not nearly enough about the mother’s. And what I want to hone in on here for a second is her comment that her partner comes from “a country and culture where the husbands usually stay at home during the delivery, or at most hang out in the waiting room.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Pauley Perrette Reveals How She First Realized She Was Having a Stroke'I woke up and had no feeling on the entire right side of my body,' the former 'NCIS' star tells ET.
Read more »
Jennifer Lawrence Wants 'Internet Scrubbed' of All Photos of This Style RegretDuring Vogue's 73 Questions, Lawrence jokes she'd love someone to Photoshop any and all photos of this haircut, as she reveals which costars were the most fun on set, what De Niro was like at her rehearsal winner and that time she accidentally took Ambien before filming The Hunger Games. She also shares her favorite Real Housewife, shows off her Kentucky accent and says the 'most bizarre' rumor she's ever heard about her was that she 'f---ed Harvey Weinstein.'
Read more »
Jennifer Lawrence Wants 'Internet Scrubbed' of All Photos of This Style RegretDuring Vogue's 73 Questions, Lawrence jokes she'd love someone to Photoshop any and all photos of this haircut, as she reveals which costars were the most fun on set, what De Niro was like at her rehearsal winner and that time she accidentally took Ambien before filming The Hunger Games. She also shares her favorite Real Housewife, shows off her Kentucky accent and says the 'most bizarre' rumor she's ever heard about her was that she 'f---ed Harvey Weinstein.'
Read more »
‘Boy Meets World’ star Maitland Ward explains why she left Hollywood: ‘I'm now my authentic self'Maitland Ward has written a new memoir in which she opened up about her adult film career after cosplaying. She had her start in Hollywood with 'The Bold and the Beautiful.'
Read more »
Queen Elizabeth, 96, Uses a Stick as She Anoints Liz Truss New Prime Minister of U.K.Queen Elizabeth II used a walking stick to support herself today as she formally invited Britain’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, to form a new government.
Read more »