New Mom Upset After Her Husband Took a Call 'While I Was in the Middle of Giving Birth'

The husband later told his wife, "Hey, you got to answer when it rings"

A woman is igniting viral conversation after sharing that her husband took a phone call while she was in labor at the hospital.

As she writes in a post shared to Reddit, her husband was at work when her water broke so she drove herself to the hospital and met him there.

Her labor lasted 17 hours, she adds, and was not without some complications.

"Hours after the epidural I started to have panic attacks from being nervous and not being able to feel my legs. It was 2 am so I woke up my husband and asked him just to touch my feet," she writes. "He did for a minute which calmed me down then he went back to sleep."

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She continues: "About an hour later I got nervous again and asked him to do the same thing. He got upset, told me to go to sleep then immediately went back to sleep."

Roughly one hour later, the contractions began to come on stronger.

"I tried to adjust myself but my leg fell off the bed. I didn’t want to wake up my husband because he was already mad at me and I didn’t want to bug the nurses so my leg dangled off the bed for about 40 minutes until the nurse came in for my heart rate being high," she adds in the post.

At about 8 a.m., she adds, doctors said she was ready to deliver the baby. Meanwhile, her husband was still asleep and "and wasn’t very happy when I woke him up." However, "he eventually became supportive," she writes.

As she couldn't move her legs due to the epidural, the woman writes that her husband "held up one leg for me and a nurse held the other" while she was having contractions.

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"When I wasn’t having a contraction my husband's phone rang," she writes. "I thought he’d decline the call but instead he dropped my leg, walked to the corner of the room and answered it. Every nurse/doctor in the room looked at him and glared. He said 'Hey what’s up man I’m a little busy right now' and proceeded to talk for a few minutes (which felt a lot longer). I had another contraction while he was on the phone so a second nurse rushed over from the other side to pick up the leg my husband dropped."

She continues: "After that contraction ended my husband was off the phone and said, 'Oh I’m sorry I’ll take back over' to the nurse. A few minutes later we had our baby boy."

Hours after the birth, the woman told her husband how hurt she was — and he responded that she was being an “emotional girl."

"I was emotional because I felt abandoned and like even during labor I was being put last," she writes on Reddit. "In the recovery room the nurse made a comment about how she’s never seen someone be so thoughtless while their kid was being born."

Later, when the two were talking about the birth to their families, the woman brought up the issue of the phone again. Her husband, she writes, "laughed and said, 'Hey, you got to answer when it rings.' "

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"I said, 'Not in the middle of your son being born,' he looked at me weird then changed the conversation. We have fought about it a couple of times and when I said, 'You haven’t apologized for how it made me feel,' he says something along the lines of, 'I’m sorry, are you happy now?' "

Now, she says the couple is discussing having another child, but she is "terrified of how I’ll be treated in the delivery room."

Commenters on Reddit have overwhelmingly taken the woman's side, with one writing, "Honestly, this behavior would make me question every life decision."

Adds another: "If he's willing to put you down in a situation like that I'm terrified about how things are going right now, much less the next time you're in the delivery room."