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purplepoppy's picture

I just dont want to get pregnant with my SO who has a 5 year old just for him to make comparisons. I dont think hes that dense but it wouldnt be hard to just let something slip. Its sorta common knowledge when a guy knows about birthing facts and its hard trying to think he randomly read that on the internet and not because his ugly A BM was pregnant.

Not exactly comparisons but we were talking about future babies. I said I want a water birth. He says I'll probably want an epidural and be at this hospital he wanted. I refuse to have a baby where his kid was born. He kept saying how then wed be depressed at the last week waiting for the baby. I even said we might not even have a kid in this state.

I told him multiple times everyone was different. I almost wanted to hurt his feelings and say when i have my baby i will be ready and everything will be planned. Unlike his 16 yr old baby having self. I almost said okay i get it everyones different god.

I could just feel myslef getting heated because my face was getting hot and when he got up to get a drink, my heart was beating fast. Ugh. I will immediately tell him off if he does it again.

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SteppedOut's picture

If you have such strong feelings about this... are you sure this is the relationship for you? Perhaps finding someone that does not already have children would be a better fit for you. 

shamds's picture

Feral kids with her.

the only thing hubby said to his sisters is with his exwife it was all csections, getting pregnant was a mistake

and she fought with the drs and nurses and told them to cut the baby out of her. No medical reasons, she was just too privileged too inconvenienced to deal with a vaginal birth.

our first was vaginal and hubby seeing me crying and in pain pushing bubs out was a new experience to him and seeing me right after acting like I hadn't given birth barely 20mins prior was astonishing to him. There were no comparisons from hubby

sd's however love to criticize my 2 kids aged 3 & 4. My kids have reddish blonde hair and very fair skinned as they are half white while skids are dark brown skinned 100% asians.

my kids have curly hair, eldest sd will say her younger sister had curly hair but it became straight when older snd so will both of mine. 
 

my daughter has blonde hair, eldesr sd will say her younger sistet had blonde hair when younger and it turned black when older and so will mine. 
 

i refuse to be around sd

SeeYouNever's picture

Well first births never go to plan, it's better to make a birth flow chart than a rigid birth plan.

Pregnancies vary a lot too, once you find yourself pregnant he'll see how different it is. You have to tell him you don't want to hear about BMs experience,you can talk about pregnancy and birth just not HER pregnancy and birth.

From what I heard (in the beginning against my will) BM had a horrible pregnancy with SD, miserable, lots of complications, a c section and SD was a sickly baby. I felt great being pregnant, stayed very active, had a mostly normal birth, vaginal, recovered very quick and our BD had no issues whatsoever. I defied all of DHs preconceptions and he often said I made it look easy. Well it's easy when you aren't a whining complainer like BM.

I'm pregnant with my 2nd now and BMs pregnancy couldn't be farther from his mind.

tog redux's picture

By my math, your SO is 21, so I'm assuming you are too.  Slow down here. If you are so bothered by his other child, find a man that doesn't have any, shouldn't be too hard at your age.  Going into it already angry about things he has said before you are even pregnant isn't a good sign.

thiscantbenormal's picture

There is no shame in knowing this guy's past experiences and baggage is not making this a good relationship for you.  

My MIL said my daughter looks like my stepdaughters, who look like their mother.  My BIL said my daughter is part DH and part BM, it was a name slip but still.  Unfortunately you will probably hear stupid sh*t from alot of places comparing the skids/BM experience with yours.  If you already anticipate this will be your future and it annoys you, dont settle and think you will just cope with it.  

If I could go back in time I would have exited while dating when he threw the second red flag about his personality and done the single mom sperm donor thing.  I would have a lot more money right now and not have to deal with his family or psychotic son and personality disordered BM. 

ESMOD's picture

Honestly... this doesn't sound like the right relationship for you.  He does have experience with someone being pregnant and the birth process..  he has had a child.  It will not be a brand new experience for him and he is likely to say things that he learned from his first rodeo.

Now, I'm NOT saying that if he were to have a baby with you that it would not be important.. or special... it won't ever be his first.. that has happened for him... but it would be his first with you.  I'm not saying you need to accept him waxing poetic about how much his first baby mom was glowing in her 5th month.. but if you have such a visceral reaction.. to him.. and per your prior post.. to issues surrounding his child?  

Steplife isn't for you.

10 months.. is way too early to be thinking about this really... do not get pregnant.  in fact.. I would go find yourself someone who doesn't already have a child so that you don't have to endure all the worries that you are forecasting with this guy.  

Winterglow's picture

Given that his child was born when he was 16, I seriously doubt he knows very much about pregnancy and childbirth beyond what he sees on TV ...

purplepoppy's picture

Yeah he says he took parenting classes but the way his kid moves sometimes is clearly obvious it went through one ear and out the other.

Winterglow's picture

There was another poster on here who said her SO claimed to have had parenting classes ... and it sounded as if he considered sitting in at daycare to be taking a parenting class. Smile

Lifer33's picture

Some men are just dumb when it comes to stuff like this. It sounds like he's concerned for you, and is basing his fears on his experience but obviously you don't want to hear about it. If you do feel this strong a reaction to the comparisons maybe you shouldn't have kids with the man. Often the comparisons get worse, friends and family get on board with them too. 

I actually listened with interest about dh bm pregnancy, as I didn't have the hate for her I do now. By all accounts it was a negative experience from conception to birth and thereafter. So I guess that helped me. Having that child split them up,the stress, anxiety and realising they were 2 completely different ppl and parents. I just noticed that your partners child is also very young, did they split up quite soon after birth? You're adament you don't want to hear what went down there, but if you did you might learn some things, even find a few red flags about your own partner, or not? I certainly realised what kind of wet weekend my dh was gonna be lol, but often best to discover that before you get pregnant 

purplepoppy's picture

He was together with BM for 4 years , he said he mainly stayed because of his kid and because they were so young but he eventually left because she just kept cheaying with multiple guys. So now he hates her and she has him blocked and isnt even telling him about important stuff about his kid. Like doctor appointments or starting daycare

purplepoppy's picture

Im working so i cant really answer every single one right now. 

But i just dont want to start over after 10 whole months because I really do care about him. 

Yeah 10 months is too soon to talk about kids . Now that i think about it , SO most likely had his kid when they were in the middle of a year dating which is how I know now this wasnt planned nor were they ready. 

But anyway I like to plan out my future. I came up with a 5 year plan which should end with me in a different state, in a house i bought or at least put half into and settling there. And thats when i would like to have kids well at least sometime in between the 5 years after were married.

Next time it happens I will express what i really think. Im not gonna undermine his kids births. But i will also let him know this is my first birth and something special to me and i just want to focus on that.

I can hear him try to word it like when he said ill be in pain. He said it was a fact most girls had and it was a proven fact. Im sure he didnt wanna say oh BM blah blah. So hes a little aware

Also part of the reason he said i wouldnt be able to handle an epidural is because we got pregnant maybe 6 months into the relationship. But i definitely dont wanna any until were married. So we had an abortion but also because i had severe morning sickness and couldnt keep anything down. Not even water and that diagnosis starts with a G like gradium or gradiual something idk. 

Rouge20's picture

10 months is a drop in the time bucket of a relationship. I realize this will sound like all the boring advice you get from older people, but you're young. This is the only time in your life where the majority of people you date won't have kids. Go find someone who also likes a 5-year plan, doesn't have kids, and who doesn't have these parenting issues. 

It takes a few years to really get to know someone in and out. If you're seeing this already, it's not a good fit. You don't want it to be 10 years before you realize that it should have ended after 10 months, especially if you have kids and now have to hack it as an older single mother trying to co-parent with a guy with poor parenting skills and another baby mama. 

Save yourself the trouble and go. 

lieutenant_dad's picture

I think you both need to slow your roll on this. You're early-20s. I remember being engaged/married in my early 20s and saying how I was going to have a water birth, no epidural, use cloth diapers, exclusively breastfeed, etc. We weren't actively trying to have kids, but my brain was actively planning to have kids.

Within two years, I was divorced. Now that I'm 32, remarried, and actively trying to get pregnant (total aside: got excellent news from DH's fertility doc yesterday!), my entire outlook on birth and pregnancy has changed from what it was a decade ago. A decade ago, I was idealistic. I didn't think about what insurance would cover, how I'd be able to travel for work and breastfeed exclusively when I could be gone for a week at a time, the time and energy it would take to work full-time and clean cloth diapers, prepare all my own baby food, etc. 

Now that I'm ACTUALLY thinking about these things, I HAVE asked my DH for his experience. We've had discussions about it. I've asked if he had found certain items useful or not, how he felt in the delivery room, how he reacted as a first-time dad with little sleep. I'm getting the benefit of his first-hand experience, and it's GREAT!

Now, I'm not saying him offering his opinions without you asking is appropriate. However, if you are planning on having kids WITH him - as in, you're a couple - I DO think these sorts of things need to be a DISCUSSION. He shouldn't decide whether you have an epidural, but he has a right to feel uneasy about you being adament about a home birth when a home birth isn't right for every pregnancy and could put you and future baby in danger.

Yes, it's YOUR body and YOUR pregnancy. But you are HIS partner carrying HIS child. DH and I have had several talks about fears and feelings around pregnancy (especially since this has been an emotionally-charged road for us), and I've learned that DH has worries and fears about pregnancy and health, but he doesn't really have an outlet to express it without being invited to express it first.

So, what do you do going forward? First, I'd stop talking about future birth plans until you two are actively trying to conceive. What you want now and what want later may be different, so you're just inviting conflict for no reason. If you want to talk about pregnancy, approach it from "I like the idea of home births, here's why, what's your opinion on home births in general?" You might find that by having a discussion about the topic might bring about a change of heart for one or both of you, or expose some feelings/concerns in your partner that you didn't k ow existed.

You have every right to dictate how your delivery and pregnancy go. You don't, however, have a right to tell your partner how he should feel or respond. You can ask that he not bring up BM. You can tell him what the birth plan is and that's final. But you can't make him okay with it, and you can't prevent him from expressing his opinion on how he thinks that plan will impact you, him, and your mutual child. It's unfair to put him in a position where he has no voice over something that affects him, too.

Peach's picture

You need to find someone else that doesn't have kids.  There are a lot of red flags here and you don't think he is properly parenting.  You are young so just go and don't stay for th sh^& show.