Pregnancy and childbirth are almost always associated with considerable stress for the mother-to-be, and this is entirely reasonable. The internet is full of stories about pregnant ladies’ various hilarious whims regarding food and whatnot – but their husbands, in fact, sometimes aren’t any less weird.

Still don’t believe me? Then please feel free to just read this collection of stories about the various strange things men did while their partners were pregnant or in labor, made specially for you by Bored Panda!

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#1

Apparently eating fried chicken while your wife is giving birth is frowned upon…I hadn’t eaten in like 24 hours, and I am not squeamish. Doctor was not impressed, so I threw it out promptly. Baby is born, all checks done, and the wife is doing good….she turns to me and says, you should go get some more chicken, I know you are still hungry. One of the many reasons I love that woman.

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#2

I was working out like crazy and dropped to 159lbs. My 8 month pregnant wife had just weighed in at 160lbs. I said “hey, you weigh more than me!”

Go directly to doghouse. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200..

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#3

I think I was about 8 months pregnant and after many atemps at rolling over in bed I finally managed it.

My husband laughs to himself and announces “thar she rolls.”.

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#4

I asked my husband to get me some cocoa butter for my stretch marks.

An hour later he calls me and says, “I’ve looked in the candy section AND the dairy section. I cannot find the cocoa butter!” He sounded frustrated and tired, but I just did this ugly laugh cry thing.

I explained to him, between sons of laughter, that it was a LOTION. I was laughing because it was so funny, and crying because my stomach was itching like crazy and I needed relief.

Edit: SOBS of laughter.

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#5

It was right after she gave birth, not while she was pregnant. She was complaining about the boy feeding non-stop, and mentioned that he made her feel like a cow. That was when I learned ‘Mooooooo’ was not an appropriate response to that situation.

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#6

When my Dad is nervous he throws up. The bigger the stress the worse the vomiting. So my Mums doctor said I needed to be induced. Dad threw up in the doctors office. Mum was admitted into hospital, Dad threw up driving her there and while she was being checked in. The pushing starts, Dads in scrubs, mask and a hat, throwing up in the background.

I get stuck, two doctors and a team of staff are trying to get me out. Dad alternates vomiting aggressively in a bucket and stroking my Mums hair.

I pop out, I’m alive and fine. I’m put in my Dad’s arms as they work on my Mum. My Dad throws up on me.

My Dad threw up on me at my birth.

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#7

I made my boyfriend buy jars and jars of pickles, while I was pregnant. When I ran out of pickles, I would get very distraught. Lol I even made him google if it was safe to drink the pickle juice while pregnant…. I disgust myself.

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#8

Went out to a happy hour with buddies on a random Tuesday night(Wife approved btw). The hour turned into several hours. Get home around 12:30, wife wakes me up at 4:30 saying her water broke. I actually didn’t believe her, as her due date was a good 2-3 weeks out. I stared at the wet spot in the bed for quite a bit not wanting to believe what was happening. What a hangover in the hospital I felt like absolute s**t and everyone could tell. The bright lights and noise were helping a lot. One of the nurses even commented on how excited I looked(I was a complete zombie). That all changed once my daughter was born. What a surreal feeling that was. I cried really hard, it was weird. I had no inclination at all that was going to happen. What a roller coaster of feelings that day had in store for me.

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#9

My water broke at about 3am but I’m not one to freak out or rush so I let my husband sleep until 6am before I woke him up and told him we needed to get ready to go to the hospital . It was our first and it was 10 days early so we were not expecting it. His exact words were “Are you serious? Okay, I know this is bad timing, but can you cut my hair first?”.

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#10

When my wife was pregnant with our first kid, she instructed me not to indulge her crazy needs. She warned me that she might have some weird cravings, but I was not to submit.
Couple of weeks into pregnancy, my wife told me she wants some olives. She could really have some olives. Not thinking twice, I grabbed a full jar (16ish oz) of olives and gave it to her. We continued merrily watching some movie and life was simple. About an hour later, my movie watching experience is being promptly ruined by my lovely wife projectile vomit what seemed to be a bucket load of half ingested olives across our bedroom. Of course, it was all my fault for letting her do that to herself.

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#11

When my parents arrived at the hospital to give birth to me, the first thing my dad asked the nurse was “where’s the cafeteria?”

My mom was 9 cm dilated.

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#12

My dad had just got a new car when my mum was due to have me and he turned on the heated seats while she was sitting in the passenger seat. She thought her water had broke.

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#13

Don’t make any plans in the 3rd trimester.

Friend of mine flew out to Switzerland to visit us and go snowboarding. Babies arrived the same day he did. Had to cancel the trip. I felt pretty bad, but he understood/had no choice.

But this is tame compared to the many friends I have that traveled abroad and missed the birth of their kids because they came early.

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#14

True story…. I had worked 12 hour shifts for three days in a row. Night shift none the less.

I get home from work at 6:30 in the morning, take the daughter to school. Come home lie down in bed, my wife turns to me and says…”I think today might be the day” I go to sleep for maybe ten to twenty minutes. She says OMG my water broke. I tell her to get out of the bed so it isn’t like totally wet.

On the way to the hospital, remember I had just worked three twelve hour shifts. I turn to my wife and say “Do you mind if I stop at McDonalds?”

Suffice it to say I got a Sausage Egg and Cheese McMuffin.

But, I still hear about it regularly!

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#15

Not me but my father. His 6ish month pregnant wife (my mom) was trying on maternity clothing while he was waiting outside the dressing room. He says to the sales assistant “we have to go, it’s time for her feeding.” jokingly. Mom cried. Refused to leave the dressing room.

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#16

My ex wife craved two things while pregnant with our daughter, Snickers bars and Smores Poptarts. So naturally, because I was a loving husband I would keep her bedside drawer stocked with these.

One day, after working a night shift, I decided “Hey, I could actually go for a Snickers” so I grabbed one, noticed there were still 4 left, and enjoyed it. From the screaming and resulting fight I’m sure the neighbors thought she had just caught me with a gaggle of hookers and blow. Nope, just one less Snickers in the drawer.

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#17

I woke up one night to my 9-months-pregnant wife hitting me. Apparently, she had gotten up to go to the bathroom, and, upon returning to the bed, slipped off and stumbled until she caught herself on the nightstand. Half-awake me was heard to say “Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down!”.

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#18

My wife loves fried green beans pregnant or not. But when she was pregnant with our second child I fried 2 whole bags of them as our entire dinner. Later in the evening, we were taking a shower together and she proceeded to throw up fried green beans all over me…twice. I’m still gunshy around her in the shower.

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#19

When the contractions started to hit, It was like 5am. I woke husband up and told him he wasn’t going to work that day. I said “It’s time.” …He rolled over and went back to sleep for an hour.

On the way to the hospital he wanted to stop for donuts.

Inside the hospital, after the epidural was given, we both took a 30min power nap.

During delivery he continuously laughed at the faces I made trying to push (and not knowing if anything was happening) this massive 8lb baby out.

…husband is an a*s.

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#20

My dad is a HAM. Not amateur, but all engrossing, passion of his life, needs-nothing-else like. On the day I was born he sent my mom alone to the hospital because he was talking to americans on the radio for the first time. (we were living in Russia, and this was all on a homemade antenna in the 90’s). So yeah, thanks dad.

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#21

Not me, but when my mom was pregnant with me, she wanted an ice cream cake. No problem, except she wanted it from a local ice cream place that is a walk up and it was in a the middle of a blizzard. So my poor dad had to drive out in the middle of a blizzard to get an ice cream cake to a place that was probably closed. He doesn’t know how, but somebody was there and he got the cake.

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#22

My dad switched to buying Prego pasta sauce when my mom was pregnant and thought it was hilarious.

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#23

When my mom was pregnant with me, her water broke at around 2 AM. She woke up my dad saying he had to take her to the hospital. He then groaned, rolled out of bed, they went downstairs, and he began making himself a sandwich saying “the baby isnt popping out for another 12 or so hours, relax”. I was the 3rd child, so I guess he had a good idea about how long these things take.

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#24

I was in hour 15 or 16 of a failed induction and they were talking about possibly needing a csection. My husband asks the OB if he has time to grab sushi from ghe cafeteria.

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#25

6 month pregnant wife was stuck at home after a snow storm. Day 3 she probably could have gone to work but I insisted for safety she stay home. Cabin fever set in. We had a weekend getaway plan but I had to get home from work before we could go.

Stopped at the father in law’s house to drop off some car parts. Had one drink with him… which turned into two… then three. I get home to a very angry wife who proceeds to accost me for drinking bourbon with her father while she’s stuck at home pregnant and can’t drink.

I responded… “I wasn’t drinking bourbon with your dad honey.”

[silence]

“I was drinking scotch”

[yelling intensifies].

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#26

Once, I tried to assert an opinion while my wife was expecting. Boy was that dumb.

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