https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 05 May 2026 10:23:20 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1853352 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:25:06 +0000 Ree723 1853352@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've done it twice now - I'd be ok with DH carrying the next one (if there is a next one!). I think I'd miss a few things but whilst I loved pregnancy the first time around, I wasn't so enamoured the second time, despite having another very easy pregnancy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1853226 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 11:33:46 +0000 LuLu Mom 1853226@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I actually told DH, if you want another one after this you better figure out a way to carry it because I'm done! I wish men could just experience 2 months of being pregnant, 1 in the first trimester, and 1 in the very last month ;) Then maybe they would understand where we are coming from! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1853112 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:53:04 +0000 Smurfette 1853112@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1853106 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:51:26 +0000 snowjewelz 1853106@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haha I keep saying he can carry the next one! But in reality I still think I'm better off being pregnant. They think they know, but they really have no idea! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1853091 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:44:31 +0000 Boheme 1853091@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He stubbed his toe and has been bitching about it for two weeks, so I'm gonna go with me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1853076 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:40:23 +0000 Lindsay05 1853076@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We would be done having kids if DH had to carry/deliver. Unless of course, I couldn't, then I think he would step up to the plate. There would be times I would be jealous of him though, crazy enough! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1853040 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:18:34 +0000 fairy 1853040@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Me, lol when I was pregnant he was always saying he was glad it wasn't him going through everything because he's a baby about sickness and pain. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1853020 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 09:56:50 +0000 bushelandapeck 1853020@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>haha....DH would never be able to handle the discomfort of being pregnant or delivering. He almost passed out while I was pushing and needed to be given juice by the nurses. :) I don't love being pregnant, but I don't hate it either, so I would be fine to do it again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1852984 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 09:36:38 +0000 Honeydew 1852984@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mae LOL So true. Men are such sissies when it comes to managing pain.</p> <p>My DH wants 3 kids. I only want 2 (we only have 1 currently). If he had the ability to have kids, then I'd carry #2 but he has to carry #3. It would be fantastic if he could just walk a mile in my shoes for once. Then he would realize how really awesome I am! (LOL) And pregnancy and delivery is not a walk in the park. And how much my body changed (sacrificed to have a baby) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1852979 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 09:34:08 +0000 Anagram 1852979@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would definitely try to bribe DH to have the next one. I am not a happy preggo. Sooo ill all the time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1852677 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 00:07:57 +0000 renee 1852677@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH definitely. We've actually talked about it several times that if he could carry the baby, he would. I'm a wuss and this pregnancy thing has gotten me exhausted and nauseous. He would handle it way better than me for sure! He would be one of those glowing pregnant women who still exercise tons and don't get morning sickness lol… I'm the grumpy tired one who just wants to each chocolate cake or puke haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1852672 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 23:53:29 +0000 Sapphiresun 1852672@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think he would. </p> <p>And as people have said above, I think it would probably be easier for me just to do it myself than listen to him complain that much for the duration of a pregnancy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1852646 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 23:00:46 +0000 Espion 1852646@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH basically said he would because then he'd get laid, lol! I make a good baby jail, so it would definitely be me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1852626 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 22:15:13 +0000 Foodnerd81 1852626@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Me. He wouldn't want to and I wouldn't want to give that up- so we are a good match. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1852594 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 21:36:19 +0000 Boogs 1852594@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Him. I would do anything for him to experience pregnancy and birth and see how that would change things. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1852593 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 21:35:31 +0000 mrsjyw 1852593@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dh already said he could never do it. When he talks about four kids (rarely) I used to tell him sure if you can carry two of them! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1852592 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 21:33:37 +0000 loveisstrange 1852592@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Me. DH is kind of a wuss.... lol. Plus, he'd never do it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1852586 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 21:21:47 +0000 jhd 1852586@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mae: Exactly! DH gets a little sniffle and freaks out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1852584 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 21:20:37 +0000 Dandelion 1852584@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH cause it ain't happening with me anymore! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1852545 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 20:26:46 +0000 wonderstruck 1852545@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH. Totally and completely. Somewhere around the 8th needle poke during my 3hr gestational diabetes test (I have difficult veins) I remember saying, "Okay, you get the next one! This isn't fair!"</p> <p>Really, he'd be a nightmare though. Not that I deal with it well (but can you really blame me with hypermesis gravidarum, gestational diabetes, and a 27 pound toddler who isn't walking yet?) but he would be even worse - like @Mae: said, he acts like he is dying whenever he comes down with a cold or the flu. Last time he threw up he was begging for me to take him to urgent care when it clearly wasn't necessary - I can only imagine if he was throwing up as often as I have. He'd still probably be willing to do it...and I would definitely let him! I'm sure he'd get used to it, not like there's much of a choice involved. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1852539 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 20:22:45 +0000 Mae 1852539@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If men had to carry babies there would be no more babies. You know how guys are when they get a cold ? Now imagine them pregnant. Nope! Lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1852529 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 20:08:16 +0000 BabyMats 1852529@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would still do it. I wasnt a big fan of beimg pregnant but there was stuff i do miss.</p> <p>Eta: dh wouldn't consider it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1852525 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 20:01:08 +0000 lawbee11 1852525@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Me. I actually really enjoyed pregnancy for the most part and my DH still said "I feel so bad for you" all the time! Pregnancy and giving birth do not appeal to him at all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1852521 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 19:59:02 +0000 reverie 1852521@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I thought about this when I was pregnant, and suggested it to my husband. He said that I am too type A to handle someone else having that responsibility and he is probably right. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-partner-could-carrydeliver-a-baby#post-1852520 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 19:55:34 +0000 Corduroy 1852520@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If your partner could carry &amp; deliver babies, who would have the next one?</p> <p>I've often joked that DH should have the next one. In reality even though I didn't love pregnancy and I didn't like labor/delivery I'm not sure I would give up carrying #2 unless DH REALLY wanted to. I think I would get a little jealous watching DH get pregnant. </p>