{"id":20144,"date":"2025-11-25T18:31:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=20144"},"modified":"2025-11-25T18:31:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:31:05","slug":"i-wont-let-my-husband-be-a-birth-partner-for-his-bff-hes-married-not-on-call-for-single-moms-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=20144","title":{"rendered":"I Won\u2019t Let My Husband Be a Birth Partner for His BFF, He\u2019s Married \u2014 Not on Call for Single Moms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My husband and I have been married for 10 years. We\u2019ve tried for a child for over 7 of them. Endless doctor visits, fertility treatments, and heartbreaks. Turns out I\u2019m infertile. We grieved that together, or at least I thought we did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here she is. His childhood best friend, Leah (34F). She\u2019s been around our entire marriage. I never liked how close they were, but I respected their history. Until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leah got pregnant after a short relationship with a guy who bailed the moment she told him. Now, weeks from her due date, she asked my husband to be her birth partner. That alone already made me feel weird, but then came the real kicker: she wants him to be on the birth certificate.<br>As the baby\u2019s father. Because \u201che\u2019s the closest thing to a dad the baby will have\u201d and \u201che doesn\u2019t have kids of his own anyway, so what\u2019s the big deal?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband and I have been married for 10 years. We\u2019ve tried for a child for over 7 of them. Endless doctor visits, fertility treatments, and heartbreaks&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":223,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20146,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20144\/revisions\/20146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}