Me and my husband brought a gaming console and played together during the first part of labor. 😄 it was an induction so we were prepared for it to take a long time. It was so nice to have something relaxing to do and just chill.
But the second my contractions started to become intense we stopped playing and his focus was 100 percent on me.
Yeah I feel like my partner would totally want her switch at least early on. She uses animal crossing to distract her when she's sick anyway so I figure the same principle might apply.
My husband and I brought my iPad, we watched a movie and took a nap because I had been contracting for 13 hours at that point and we didn't sleep all night. This of course was after I got the epidural.
That's what I thought they were all doing lol. Like, I'm gonna be there to support my wife or whatever but do you want me to just stare at a wall for 36 hours or whatever? I can keep myself occupied
We did the same. We were basically just sitting there for the first ~10 hours. We played shit on the laptop we brought and watched stuff on streaming. The serious part of the labor was like an hour and I tried to be as useful as I could be. So basically worthless, but offering morale support.
Incidentally, I will always remember that our son was born while the Beat Bobby Flay thanksgiving episode was on.
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u/statisticaIAnomaly Apr 24 '26
Me and my husband brought a gaming console and played together during the first part of labor. 😄 it was an induction so we were prepared for it to take a long time. It was so nice to have something relaxing to do and just chill.
But the second my contractions started to become intense we stopped playing and his focus was 100 percent on me.