Do you know what is the most popular post on my blog of all time? It’s a little post called “28 Examples of Crap Husbands Pull While their Wives are in Labor“.
Except it isn’t 28 examples, because there are 320 stories left by disgruntled wives in the comments below the post, ranging from humorous to horrific. That list grows almost daily and whenever a comment from that post pops up in my inbox, I have a little debate with myself over whether or not I want to read it.
Am I having a bad day? Do I want it to get worse? Am I in a good mood? Am I okay if that mood is ruined by a reclining man eating a burrito complaining of stomach pains right next to his laboring wife???
Sometimes it’s better to shut the computer for the day.
Here’s a man who is SO FUNNY, he didn’t just pull crap in the delivery room, he pulled it through all nine months of pregnancy. I want to laugh. But really, if he were my husband, I would pour that urine sample on his head.
What do you think? Is this funny? Or rage inducing??? Kudos to his wife for dealing with him and pregnancy hormones at once.
Update: Here’s another video of the same dad from about a year ago that I just found out about through comments on Facebook. Apparently, his son was suffering from a brain tumor and he surprised him on his birthday by jumping down from the roof as Spiderman. Sadly, the couple lost their son to the tumor later that year on Christmas Eve. My heart goes out to him and his family and I wish them the best of luck with their new baby.
So in summary, this man gets a pass, but if my husband pulled any of the pranks in the first video, I’d make him sleep on the couch.
Started watching and had to stop. I’m pregnant now and I’m not a serene earth-mother type of pregnant. I’m not a nice pregnant, I’m a super annoyed at little things and raging at slightly less little things type of pregnant.
If my husband did any of this to me I would kill him. If he did it and filmed it I would torture him and then kill him. If he did these things, filmed it and then put it on the internet…. I honestly don’t know what I would do. It’s callous, unthinking, shows his lack of empathy or even basic caring for what his wife is going through. Actually I do know what I would do. I would make him wear something like this for a month or more (http://abc7news.com/society/3-dads-spend-a-month-feeling-what-its-like-to-be-pregnant/532714/) and then I would sign him up for simulate labour (http://www.babble.com/pregnancy/two-men-get-a-glimpse-into-what-childbirth-feels-like-video/) where I get to flick the switch and he doesn’t get to wuss out.
Let me just say that us Brit ladies give as good as we get, and I get the impression that she knows just how to get her own back when the camera isn’t rolling!
I actually think it’s quite funny. I agree everything you see shows he’s being a bit of a jerk but I think behind it all he’s a good dad. Looks like he loves his wife, really. Plus she seems to not get too annoyed, albeit the multiple ‘shut-ups’ she says at him.
I had to stop watching too, I’m 7 months pregnant and very grateful for my husband, even more so after watching this “dbag”
My favourite part is when she smacks that Ricky Gervais wannabe right across the face. Well done!
They lost their son to a brain tumor. I’m inclined to cut him a little slack. In fact, humor is one of my biggest turn-ons as well as a favorite coping mechanism, so I would hug this dummy and love him for lighting up my life in an unimaginably dark time.
I’ve amended the post to include the Spiderman video and some information about the loss of their son. I agree- he gets a pass. And I do think the video is funny, I was just watching it imagining my husband doing that to me and I do not think I would like it AT ALL.
When I first watched it, I found parts of it funny while others were super annoying and I’d want to smack him for sure. In fact, i enjoyed it when she did smack him. 🙂 But when I went to his page and saw his other videos including the one where he dressed as Spider-Man and surprised his son with a brain tumor, my heart melted and I am just impressed that they’re able to have such a wonderful sense of humor when dealing with such a devastating loss.
Agreed. I didn’t know about his back story when I wrote the post. It doesn’t change my opinion of the video but it does let me know he’s an awesome dad. And I do commend them for keeping humor in their lives after such a horrible tragedy.
Justifiable homicide
HA I actually thought it was funny and I feel like she totally knows it’s him acting for the camera – I doubt he is this way on a daily basis. I love her – oh shut up – in her accent… awesome!! LOL
I seriously thought this was so funny. Clearly they’re just having fun and what’s life without a little humor in it?
This guy is an ass. The vast majority of it wasn’t even funny. There are few things I enjoy more that teasing my wife. But, its always lighthearted and done only when she’s in the right mood. My goal is always to make her smile, not just entertain myself.
But, the thing that made me sick about this dude was his video about dressing up as Spider Man. It was a very cool thing to do…but it certainly seems like he is more worried about making himself look good than his kid happy.
This is a quote from the video description:
“I’m so proud i managed to do this for him, and secretly filmed the surprise with my Go Pro 3+ :)”
Seems he is more worried about advertising and the camera and giving himself an ego boost…
I didn’t get that at all. Terminally ill children get visits from their heros all the time, sports players, cartoon characters. Usually it’s in the environment of a hospital, this was in the comfort of his home. Dad did a sweet thing for his child, why shouldn’t he be proud of it.
What was in that vile that she kept dangling in front of him??
i believe it was urine 🙂
People who lack a sense of humor are the ones who suffer the most in this lifetime. He is funny and I am quite sure that if she was not having the filming, she would have either said something or would have made it known that she wants it to stop. She doesn’t appear to be a tortured/abused/tormented woman who is held at gunpoint in an effort to achieve a good laugh. In-fact, this post as well as some of the replies here tell me that those of you who are nitpicking every, single, detail of the “not funny” video should maybe learn to press stop and walk away.
What is in poor taste is failing to do your research before criticizing a family who is either just trying to make some extra money by creating Youtube content OR using this as an outlet to A. Film their lives in an effort to never again lose precious moments and B. Deal with the grief of the terrible loss of their child. I could not and would not want to imagine where I would be in this life if something would have happened to my children and it is relieving to see them carry on and heal from this through videos like the one you’ve just ripped to shreds.
I can totally appreciate messed up humor like that. I thought it was hysterical, not to be taken literally.It wasn’t making light of the difficulties of pregnancy. I love satire. Good husband, good dad.
Just how I felt!
I thought they were both funny. She teased him at times too. We don’t see her get really upset, just exasperated. British humor is different. And if they want to enjoy this pregnancy with humor after a devastating loss, then hurray for them. But I can relate to their sense of humor. Some won’t. I was an easy going pregnant lady, made jokes about myself and laughed when he made jokes about me. They weren’t mean and he also was kind and loving. But humor is a big part of our relationship and how we raise our kids.