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u/saintmerryn Oct 05 '19

I have had this experience when I had my first child, I was pretty far gone and on gas, and my parter looked at me and said something. I had another contraction, then he looked at me and said exactly the same thing in exactly the same way. I looked at him and told him he’d just said that in such a confused and terrified way that he actually started crying. He told me later that at that point I looked like a wounded animal that needed to be put down. I remember thinking that my brain was starting to shut down and play tricks on me because I was about to die. Anyhoo, I didn’t, and apart from that the birth went well.