Paranoid Partners Stink...

[Pandora114]

he's SOO FREEKIN PARANOID!!!

yup. Told him I wanted the birthing pool up here in the computer room *the ONLY place it'll fit* and he goes off on how he's gotta move the computer and blah blah blah, and how the electrical outlets are and blah blah blah..and water leakage blah blah blah

HELLO, Electricity doesn't ARC from a plug to water, it just doesn't DO that. Jeesus and he's the one taking an electronics course????

Umm, Leakage, Don't over fill pool, get a tarp, and a carpet reminant to put underneath the pool, with sufficient area around the pool to catch splashes and it's all good! our friggen BATHROOM is on the top floor for chrissakes!!

He's like "What's wrong with it being in the living room?" I go "Umm our BED is on the second floor, our BATHROOM is on the second floor THAT is why I don't want it in the living room" Then he's like "Well if something goes wrong the midwives and I will have to carry you down stairs" I'm like "Hey doofus, last time I gave birth was on the 2nd storey of an apartment building with NO ELEVATOR!"

He frustrates me sometimes..he really and truly does...zero concept I swear...

[chelko]

You are not alone. My midwife was showing me pictures of her last homebirth. They had just moved in to a new home, so her dh was a bit paranoid about, um, splashing or something. He had put plastic tarp over EVERYTHING...the floor, the couches, up parts of the wall. :LOL

So, if your dh is freaking about the computer, just have him move it and plastic wrap the room. It can be done!

Good luck!
chelko

[Pandora114]

lol, He's also paranoid of

ELECTRICITY ARCING OUT OF THE OUTLETS INTO MY BODY

the wierdo is studing to be an Avionics technician, and is doing his electronics course right now so umm..shows you how much he's acctually LEARNED about the acctual PROPERTIES of electricity. sheesh...what a freeking dumbazz. LOL. Last thing I remember is umm, doesn't electricity need an acctual conduit? Like water is gonna do a terminator thing and make a wire or something. LOL.

And the pool will be about ooh 8 feet away from the acctual tower there will be a tarp under it, and a carpet to absorb water but of course, the dumbazz doesn't REALIZE that our BATHROOM is on the second floor too, and my DD usually either splashes or dumps a good 3/4 of her bath water onto the floor every night and there is still zero leakage to the lower floor.

But yeah, the electricity mysteriously arcing into my body from the outlets just cracks me up. From a soon to be electrician too. LOL :LOL

[StarMama]

So.... does he have a problem with outlets or light fixtures being in the bathroom? Near the kitchen sink? :LOL

[Pandora114]

LOL I dunno, but I was talking to a friend of mine, and he said "Looks like your hubby isn't %100 comfortable with the idea of a homebirth and is looking at any excuse not to have one" I go "Yeah, and he's just running out of straws to grasp before he acctually REALIZES that homebirth/water birth is safe"

I should tell him that a hospital room has 10X more outlets in it than our computer room, and they have showers and tubs available to labouring women. HEHE.

Yeah my parnter is just looking for excuse after excuse not to have a homebirth. Looks like I'm gonna have to sic his momma on him again. *sigh* MIL told me that if she had the option when her 3 were born, she woulda done it at home, because she KNOWS all the interventions she had in the hospital IRT my partner being born *ALmost a csection, soon as she got up to go over to the operating table, hubby almost splatted on the floor lol* and her youngest, soon as Dr felt butt, she was whisked into the OR. she knew she coulda delivered her youngest vaginally but the Dr was a super freak.

but yeah, I'm gonna have to sik the inlaws on him if I am pregnant *I really feel I am, I've been sleeping HORRIBLY at night and that's a sign that I am*

[WinterBaby]

Is it about the entire homebirth, or is it his way of saying he feels like the computer room is his space, and doesn't want it invaded by birth stuff? Some people get touchy over "their space" (okay *I* get touchy over my space, LOL) and don't want other people - even the most loving of intimate people moving all their stuff (...I call it *crap* when it belongs to DH and it's large/noisy/invasive/offensive to me and he's putting it where I like to be,) into what they conciously or unconciously view as their personal space. And if this were the case, well you still might be talking "Why the heck is the birth tub *mine* and not *ours*?" heh.

[Pandora114]

*his* space is the storage/work room, he builds his model airplane's there, he has all his McFarlane toys on display there, KWIM??. The computer room is niether his nor mine, it's *ours*, and it's the only room in the house that the birth tub will fit. We live in a PMQ for crying out loud LOL.

No, he's spleeny about the homebirth aspect. Always has been...

[WinterBaby]

I gave DH a spare bedroom to store junk, maybe the kitchen, I'm pretty sure he won't accept the garage... the rest is either mine or dd's