What to Know
If you had a husband by your side while you gave birth, or while you waited to be wheeled in for a C-section, then you can probably appreciate the care they took to be there for you. That’s all well and good, and hooray for men. Well, in this instance, anyway. But when one husband joked on TikTok about the “traumatic hospital chair” he was forced to sleep in, there were some mixed reactions from other parents.
Some got the humor right away and shared their own jokes about the men not getting enough accolades despite the women doing the work of actual labor. Others were not here for this foolishness, even if the husband just meant it as a joke. There were even a few dads who had the audacity to comment on the TikTok that they legitimately want more credit for sticking it out for hours for their respective wives. Let’s not get out of control here, fellas.
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Apparently, nothing trumps the trauma of dads in the delivery room…sure, Jan.
The TikTok, which was actually posted to the husband’s wife’s account, shows the camera slowly closing in on the husband while his wife, Zehra, talks to someone off-camera. On the screen, it says, “POV” Your wife always gets to tell her traumatic birth story but no one ever asks about the traumatic hospital chair you had to sleep on.”
Most hospitals have the same accent chair that sometimes doubles as a single bed when pulled out. And, whether it’s used as a chair with no foot stool or as a narrow bed for husbands while their wives go through hours upon hours of labor, it’s historically uncomfortable. I’ll give him that. But there is nothing about that chair that compares to the mental and physical toll that birthing an actual child takes on a woman.
Luckily, it seems like Zehra’s husband is all jokes about the entire situation.
The fact that she allowed him to post the video to her TikTok account proves that she’s in on the joke too. So dom’t worry, we won’t have to track him down and force him to understand the severity of giving birth versus dealing with an uncomfortable hospital chair.
Other moms commented on the TikTok to join in on the joke with Zehra.
“I was bleeding out, stayed in the ICU for days, and needed multiple blood transfusions, but I didn’t have it as bad as my poor husband,” one mom commented. “Those monsters didn’t even bother to give him an extra pillow!”
Another shared, “Trust me, everyone knows my husband went almost 32 hours without sleep.” Ah, so she has one of those men, who likes to bring up his interrupted sleep while she was likely going through intense labor pains. Fun.
A husband joked, “My wife was in labor for like 14 hours. Talk about BORING.”
Another added, “It’s been four years. I’m still trying to recoup the lost sleep I had from the hospital chair.”
Hey, at least some of the husbands are self-aware enough to realize that, in the grand scheme of things, spending a few hours, or even overnight, in an uncomfortable chair is nothing compared to what their wives went through.
