37 People Who Work At Maternity Wards Share The Weirdest Thing A Father Has Done

My friend worked L&D in a rural area and after the wife birthed their first child, the husband asked the doctor, “how soon can I breed her again?”
He didn’t ask it as a joke.

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My cousin got pregnant ASAP after the first one as the second arrived 9.5 months later. Her doctor kept her in the hospital for four days until he was sure the BC pills he had started her on were in her bloodstream. She had just the two, so it must have worked.

This is terrible but I also heard a story where they needed to stitch up the mom after natural birth and the dad instructed the doctor to make her “extra tight” so he could enjoy her tonight. My mom was mortified and would get white every time she told that story.

I was charge nurse one night when my nurse came and told me she walked in on a dad breastfeeding from the mom/patient… like, on his knees with a breast in his mouth. Baby was in the crib whining like, “Hey, it’s my turn!”

Nurse just walked right back out.

My friends loser ex boyfriend was kicked out for taking her laughing gas from her while in labour .

Partner striped naked to get in the birthing pool with his wife/girlfriend. the poor midwife didn’t know what to do.

edit to add: there was no issue with him choosing to be in the pool with his wife (although having seen what’s in a birthing pool after a delivery, it’s not somewhere i’d choose to be). the weird part was that he felt it was okay to entirely strip in front of a midwife who was maybe 23/24 at the time and a male doctor. his wife was wearing more clothing than he was.

There was the dad who hauled in a flat screen and Playstation, playing COD live while I was trying to help mom get baby breastfed. He loudly shushed me because “the guys could hear me”. SIR.

As a student midwife, my mentor & I were looking after a couple who had got pregnant on their 1st date so very much still in the honeymoon period. When she was offered an internal examination, she asked us to leave the room so that her partner could ‘moisten her up first’ 😂.

After delivering a boy I asked the new dad if he knew they were having a boy and he said, dead serious “well the doctor said there was a 50% chance so I was pretty certain”.

How about the weirdest thing we saw FROM a maternity ward employee:

When I gave birth to our first daughter, we weren't married. So, the husband and I had to sign a paper saying he IS the father, etc. Our baby looked so much like him and his sister that we joked that maybe she wasn't mine. He said "I'm positive I'm her dad but, are you sure you're her mother?" and other silliness.

Maternity clerk had a brain freeze or something because she was ADAMANT that he had 90 days to refute the paternity claim and suggested a DNA test, etc. We weren't quiet when we were saying these things and we were OBVIOUSLY cracking up at each other. He was clearly joking when he said "are you sure you're her mother?" while I was standing there in a hospital gown with a med bracelet on. I don't think the lady knew how babies were made and born- even with all the chart info right in front of her. We had to reply, "Ma'am.... I'm sure I'm her mother since I just pushed her out hours ago. Says so right here" *points at chart and he said, "Um... ma'am? I asked her if she was sure SHE was her mother. I NEVER said I wasn't sure she's my child. We were just joking with each other. How did you come to the conclusion that we needed a DNA test?"

Lady just sat there and blinked for a good minute before it registered in her brain.

One of my coworkers brought his Xbox to the hospital and was playing Fortnite on the hospital wifi. I’m not even talking about before the baby is born when you’re waiting around, I mean like after the baby is born and you’re still in the hospital. He played with my friends online and they said you could hear the nurse in the background in the middle of the night checking on his wife and baby while he played. Somehow he is still married, and she thinks he’s a great dad even though he’s even worse at home.

A relative who was a GP doing a locum got tired of the midwives calling him for a delivery very late in the birth (if the baby arrived before the doctor got there, the midwife got the delivery fee so the late calls were deliberate). So he started to go to bed fully clothed and managed to get there in time thereafter. Said the crestfallen expressionon the midwives faces was classic. It wasn't so much that he begrudged the midwives the fee as it was being pissed off at being woken up at 2 am and driving to the hospital for no reason.

Not L&D staff but a mom. My husband forgot how to spell my name when he called asking if we should go to the hospital 🤦‍♀️ we were first time parents and in total denial as to what was happening because I went into labor early and it was also the middle of the night. I've never let him live that down!

Co-worker told me that when the doc was stitching her up after an episiotomy, her husband told him to add an extra stitch or two to tighten things up. Neither the doc nor my co-worker was amused by this.

Story from the opposite end.
My eldest god son is now 21.
This story goes back to his birth, my friend had a tendency for premature and short births.

Her first arrived 2 weeks early after a 4 hour labour
Her Second arrived 5 weeks early and a 2 hour labour.

This was her third.
Her husband was out of town she was bored and 30 weeks pregnant, they had a plan in place....it didnt happen We had just sat down and ordered pizza in some place in Chelsea near where she lived, we were talking when she stopped stood up and said we need to go to the hospital now!.
I looked confused, then realised "but youve still got a couple of months...."
She explained about her first two and added she wasnt about to give birth in an hour if she wasnt in a hospital...

So we cancelled the pizza....her waters broke in the doorway. She yelled sorry, im flagging down a black cab, shes having contractions...im trying to call husband and the maternity ward as shes trying to stay calm....

We get to the hospitals maternity ward, still no husband. ...

The midwife tells me to put down the phone it can wait and i need to be in there with her..

We laugh im not her husband im not the kids father im trying to call him. Im still being dressed in the protective gear and calling her husband who isnt responding.
...10 minutes later godson arrives screaming.

57 minutes from that first twinge, till he arrived.....

Friend passes out, apparently thats happened each time, she kept that a surprise im there holding him.

Phone rings nurse answers.

All she says to husband was, "well that was a rollercoaster smiles at me gives my phone back..takes GS and i talk with husband.

I just ask why did noone warn me this was why you wanted someone with her at all times.....

Ironically, her 4th and final kid a few years later -a girl- after 3 boys, arrived as scheduled and a 14 hour Labour.

My mother told me my dad showed up with a face full of lipstick kisses when my brother was born...

They didn't split up and had me 10 years later...

My mother was at the hospital to have me, and my dad was admitted at the same time with ulcers. Hmmmnnn. Gee wonder if any correlation.

My dad went outside for a smoke and when he came back I had been born 🤦‍♀️.