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All through the pregnancy I kept telling dh he could stay by my head. That went out the window as soon as I started pushing. The nurse told him to hold a leg and he couldn't say no. He ended up seeing everything and is a little scarred by it.
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Originally the plan was to have him by my head but the nurse had other intentions for him, mainly holding my leg and she actually made him watch!
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We were both expecting that DH would stay by my head with DD, but he ended up watching her birth, and he said it was incredible. I had to have my placenta manually removed with DS, and he watched the whole thing, after watching DS's birth; I'm relatively certain there is nothing that could happen that would rival that, and he still feels the same way about me, so...
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I really don't want him down there if i can help it, although i do think he should cut the cord. we did have a little visit to the er and labor and delivery for a false alarm recently and he was so good at dealing with me getting speculumed and swabbed in his birdseye view so i am feeling less concerned that if things dont go to plan he will totally flip out. i am also planning a water birth so if all goes well things will hopefully not be quite as graphic or in your face when they happen too. we shall see.
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He saw.... but he's a nurse so nothing really would be too graphic for him. The second time around (seeing I went med-free) I held his hand and squeezed the hell out of it, so he wasn't anywhere below my waist!
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I didn't really think about that. He said it was a bit traumatizing (mostly because the baby's head looks so weird coming out) but maybe that helped him be more understanding when I said "no touchy!" for ten weeks.
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I was totally fine with it and expected it, he helped hold my leg and was my biggest support during the birth process. We are a team, I don't have anything to hide from him after what got us into the pregnancy in the first place!
He is a vet, so he has seen far worse things. That being said, we weren't sure how it would effect him since his uncle passed out at his childrens' births, and he is a vet too.
I think it helped him understand just how great the stresses on my body were. I didn't feel that he would see me with any significant difference afterwards either (other than my supreme awesomeness of squeezing out a 6lb 11oz watermelon). I did feel bad about how stressed he was over my discomfort at first, but then I was too busy concentrating on squeezing that gigantic baby out to care about any modesty with anyone present.
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No and no-- but when push came to shove (hardy har), we both wanted to see and be present. Sucks though, just as we were getting close--me pushing and him holding my leg--they whisked me away for a c-section. We were both really bummed.
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I just recently watched YouTube videos of vaginal delivery with an epidural (you know...to see if it's less violent) and I was pretty traumatized. So I'm thinking if DH sees that, we'll never get to conceive another child bc that's the only thing he'll ever associate with my Lady Bits.
I actually asked him after reading this thread and he said,"I don't even know what I think about that..." Lol
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