Should men watch their women give birth?

Others may not be present in the delivery room but will hover around.

While baby making is an enjoyable joint-activity between a man and a woman, child birth --the painful bit-- is normally left to the woman. After all, and holy Book has it, child birth pain is God’s curse and punishment to women after Eve misled Adam into sin by disobeying Him. Thus, yes, to borrow women’s parlance, ‘we’ may be pregnant, but expecting ‘us’ to experience the pain of childbirth together is pushing the joke a bit too far!

Leave alone being in the delivery room as their wives give birth, most men would rather be far away, say, on convenient safari or fake business trip as their wives give birth. Tales have been told of men who conveniently travel far away from home just a few days before their wives give birth. Some of the reasons men give for fear of being present in the delivery room during their children’s birth are, to say the least, absurd, and if not, plain hilarious.