Gentlemen: if you could have a baby, why would or wouldn't you?

I will be first to admit that I completely lack the emotional or physical fortitude to pop a kid out.

The very thought makes any holes i may have cringe. D:

Well, I want to raise a child at some point in my life, but will quite probably adopt, given the huge overpopulation problem and the enormous number of children in need of good homes. Of course, there is a special bond which forms between mother and child, and there’s something to be said for being able to see yourself in your offspring, but given the physical and mental pain involved, I don’t think I’d want to carry a child myself.

Also, where would it come out? I’m assuming I have a hypothetical uterus? Would a C-section be necessary?

You mean would I want to give birth? No, seems too painful.

My husband says, “If it was normal in the community and I wasn’t weird. Also, only if I could have a C-section.”

here ya go.

Also, Stan has a perspective on this.

Realistically if it came down to it, I doubt I’d want to go through pregnancy and birth (though if my mom did it 4 times, why couldn’t I?), but sometimes I really wish it were possible for two men to have a child together. And there’s something interesting (beautiful, maybe?) about being able to actually carry a child…

if I could, my wife would make me after she carried the first one lol

Erm… we men can have babies. I have done so twice. (Of course, it involves the consent of a woman willing to carry the little bugger for 9 months.)

Of course, I suspect you probably mean if we could grow one inside our own bods. The answer for me is a resounding HELL NO!

No. I’m a wimp. It looks too painful. My God! When my wife had our first, it was nearly too painful and all I had to do was hold her up every step of the way, and have her squeeze my arm off every time she had a contraction. If I was more exhausted than I’ve ever been by the time our daughter was born, imagine what she felt like! No way I’m gonna be on her side of that equation.

No, they can be quite expensive and time-consuming.

I wouldn’t do it because I would have to quit drinking.