In a recent childbirth class I was discussing “behavior” in the labor room. That I had never seen, in all my years of experience as a labor and delivery nurse and observations, a woman hit her man during labor.  I heard “flowery” verbal expression, but nothing physically abusive.

Many men have this image of having to wear football gear to protect themselves from their laboring partner – anticipating her to be an uncontrollable wildwoman that may harm them in some way. Not true.

A dad then made the following observation in my class.

“So, it’s really not like what you see on TV. Here in this class I have learned you can walk during labor, go rest, it’s not the drama you see played out on TV or in movies …”

For this dad it was an ah-ha moment because it he gained a different perspective of childbirth,  it normalized the birth experience and saw that reality is always different than what’s shown on TV.

TV shows and movies sell drama and that’s what we see. They don’t show the reality of birth .. it actually might be to boring to show - tell the truth.

Lesly

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