How many guys have "lost it" after watching their wives give birth?

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I'm NOT trying to be sexist at all, but my wife told me even SHE was grossed out by the birth process (?), so I figured, after watching "Knocked Up" and listening to HER go "UGHHHH! EWWWW" (like the guys--and if you notice, also like Heigl's character Allison, when she sees it in a mirror!), that maybe there IS something to SOME guys NOT watching their kids be born. 

I mean, in ancient times, was there some whacko with a mirror, chanting and recording the thing on video or whatever? NO! Women got thru it as best they could and many say forgot about it (I dig that! MY wife says you never forget, which I get, also. I would NOT forget "trying to pass a basketball", as some have described it!

Any takers? (And can we NOT go into that debate of "Natural is beautiful" vs. EWWWW thing? I"m interested what you GUYS (WHO HAVE BEEN THERE) think! 

Reason: I wanna know what to tell my son how to react when and if he ever becomes a dad (his mom will only say "It's a F********* NIGHTMARE--but at least I have YOU!"  Hmmmm... Okay.

A derka der · Accepted Answer

my husband and i enjoy sex too much for birthing to have turned us off the whole thing. besides which, i vagina with a baby's head coming out of it looks FAR different to a vagina that is about to be used for other things. I wasn't all that interested in having a mirror or a video the first time, and my hubby did have a look once her head was out, but that was more 'i can see our baby!' rather than 'hmm... what does THAT look like?' But i think i would like a video next time, so i can remember better.

The whole having a baby thing is a generally messy affair. there's the fluids, and the blood, not to mention the having to get rid of all the stuff in your digestive system before labor- up and out or the other end. Not to mention the bleeding afterward. Yuck.

But it's also a normal thing. And a most wondrous and amazing thing.

add: i think how the husband handles it depends a lot on how the wife handles it. If your wife is screaming blue bloody murder and cussing at you and generally carrying on, then of course it's going to traumatize the hubby. haha. As it was, I handled my labour very gracefully, and hubby and i have great communication, we had discussed a number of things before hand, like how he can't 'fix it' when i'm in labour. I managed to go off into a 'zen' place and things went smoothly and just like they were supposed to.

Or maybe some husbands just have more brass than other husbands :P

? · Answer

With nymph first I got the mirror and my husband looked in it I'm accident and he almost passed out. It was funny so my second and third births, everybody was making fun of him asking if he was going to be ok. I had pretty painless labors so I don't really remember it.

Eve · Answer

Let me start off by saying that neither am I a guy, nor anywhere close to giving birth. I stumbled across this question and it reminded me of an article I read by Michael Odent, an obstetician, on why men shouldn't be present during the birth of their children. You can read the areticle here.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-559913/A-obstetrician-men-NEVER-birth-child.html

Something he raised was that many men have 'lost it', as you put it after seeing their wives give birth. It's actually a relatively modern concept that men need to be present during the birth of their children. For thousands of years, it was just women.

Lauren M · Answer

When the nurse went to get the mirror I told her I didn't want it and I had my ex husband stay near my head with all three births. I saw no reason for him to have to witness the gross, a clean baby is a little easier to hold anyway.

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