Oh, internet. Thank you for giving us so many reasons to laugh.
Jeffrey Bausch – known online as ‘The Pregnant Husband’ – started a tumblr when his wife was three months pregnant, chronicling the ins-and-outs of pregnancy.
But because this is the internet, there’s no need to just write about pregnancy. Mere words on a computer screen is so 1998. Instead, he recreated their journey with hilarious GIFs.
For example:
With the baby now three days overdue, my (very uncomfortable) wife and me talking to her belly.
We’re like:
When my pregnant wife tells me to put my hand on a particular spot on her belly and out of nowhere the baby kicks.
I’m like:
After looking forward to the due date for so long, the day after it passes and still no baby.
It’s like:
When I make fun of my pregnant wife and she responds by saying that she’s going to pop a water balloon in bed while I’m sleeping to trick me into thinking that her water broke.
I’m like:
When it’s a fast food night and I ask my pregnant wife if she wants McDonald’s or Wendy’s and she tells me she doesn’t care and so I say that I want Wendy’s and she responds, “Oh that’s right, because you’re the pregnant one here.”
I’m like:
My wife’s fear of her water breaking in public.
That it would, more or less, go down something like:
You can see the rest of his (and often his wife’s) journey here.
The trials and tribulations of the pregnant husband actually reminds us a little of the other recent ‘when men and labour meet’ internet sensation… Men experiencing childbirth.
In case you missed the viral video, the premise was basically that two young Dutch men set themselves a little science experiment, to find out what childbirth feels like. And then they filmed themselves. The results were hilarious.
Keep watching – the REAL pain starts around the 4 minute mark.
But hey, however men want to get involved with pregnancy, labour, childbirth, etcetera, is fine with us. Particularly when the results are ‘so funny that I peed a little’. Although Jeffrey Bausch’s reaction to that might be:
When my pregnant wife tells me that she just laughed so hard that she peed a little bit. I’m like:
So, men and pregnancy. Do they get it? At all?
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Top Comments
Look, I love my husband. He's an awesome dad to our two children and an amaing supportive husband, but on the pregnancy front he doesn't get it! I'm current 37 weeks pregnant with our third child and still doing the lions share -- whilst in immense pain. My back is stuffed! I think he just thinks I'm tougher than I actually am... But someone must have got in his ear because this morning... I'm still in bed and he's tending to the kids breakfast! Wow!!! :)
That is hilarious... I too have spent the last hour looking through! Lucky it's a slow work day!