A pregnant woman who was in labour kicked her husband out of the delivery room after he played a ‘stupid’ TikTok prank pretending that she had done a loud fart.
Taking to Reddit for advice, the anonymous woman, 23, believed to be from the US, asked if she was wrong to have made her husband leave the room because of the prank and subsequently make him miss the birth of their first child.
She explained that during the pregnancy her 24-year-old husband had become “slightly obsessed” with YouTube and TikTok videos of husbands pulling pranks on their wives while they were in labour and thought it would be “funny”.
However, she asked him not to do any pranks on her when she was giving birth and said he agreed not to do anything - but continued to joke about it.
She wrote: “The day of the delivery came and I had been in labour for 8 hrs (12 hr total labour).
“I had just finished another round of contractions when my husband let out the loudest fart, turned to me and said, ‘What the hell have you been eating? It smells disgusting’.”
The woman said she “immediately recognised” the joke as one of the pranks in the TikTok videos and was “outraged”. She said she “demanded'' that her husband leave the room and then went through the last four hours of labour by herself.
After their daughter was born, her husband was “fuming” that he missed the birth and she said he now hasn't talked to her in a whole week.
Reddit users rushed to the comments to give her advice on the situation, with many people on the forum taking the woman’s side and slamming her husband for trying to humiliate her with a “dumb TikTok prank” rather than be a supportive partner.
One person wrote: “Trying to embarrass his wife delivering their first baby for some dumb Tik Tok pranks. I can’t even imagine my SO doing something like this.
“How can you not be excited for your first born, taking care of your wife who is about to give birth to your child but only caring about making some dumb video for likes?”
Another person agreed that she was not in the wrong, writing: “Life is not a series of 30 second clips. You wanted a present supportive partner and he blew it. You specifically asked NOT to do something, and he did it anyway.”
One person added: “Do not feel guilty for robbing him of this experience, you did not, he threw it away all by himself.”
However, another user pointed out that the most concerning part of the situation was how her husband had ignored her for a week after their baby was born.
They wrote: “I really hope you're being hyperbolic when you say he hasn't talked to you during the first week of your baby's life. If not, the issue is much bigger than pulling a stupid "prank" in the delivery room.”
