You make no sense, and I personally don't like that. Sucks to be you, you should find better friends. Maybe he was doing something more important that he couldn't get out of. So, I think you're over exaggerating about this. Also, if you're having your baby why not call the FATHER in not the CRUSH?! Good luck child.

@92 - I take you've never had a child? Where does she say she wants her mother IN the room, watching everything straight through until the birth? Oh that's right, it DOESN'T. My husband was the only one in the room while I had my daughter, but you bet your ass my mother (and my entire family for that matter) was in the room with me for everything leading up to when it started getting nasty (I was induced) and then during the actual labor, they were all sitting just down the hall in the waiting room. BUT if my husband were unable to be at the delivery, as he is in the military and it was actually almost a possibility that he'd miss it, she would be the first person I'd call to be in that room instead. Who else would you expect her to call??? It's certainly not like going through something like that by yourself is really an option, you need someone there for support - why on earth would anyone call someone else besides their parent in a situation like that? To everyone saying that he doesn't want to sit through the gory scene - it clearly states that she merely wanted some company in the time she'd have to wait for her mother. Labor, particularly in a first child, usually takes quite some time, so if she'd just gotten there, it's highly unlikely that he would've seen anything unpleasant in only an hour's time. What this post DOESN'T clearly state is where the father is - not that it's really any of anyone's business. There is a character limit on posts, and since the issue she's complaining about is her friend's behavior, the status of the father probably seemed irrelevant. Cell phones are in fact allowed on maternity wards, but everyone should know by now that it only says "today" because FML requires that - it's very possible that she wrote this some time after it actually happened, and by now has probably found out what her friends was doing at the time that he couldn't get off his ass. At everyone else saying she must be so young because of her wording - I know women 35 years old+ who still refer to men of interest as their "crushes." Whether I agree with the assumption that she's young, or that the baby is fatherless, the fact of the matter is that those are all ASSUMPTIONS. It's disgusting to read the comments on all the FMLs and see how high and mighty everyone is, especially since rarely are they speaking with any true knowledge of the situation.

Everyone is assuming everything in this fml. There could be sooooo many reasons why the father's not there. Work, long distance, anything. Stop assuming on fmls when you don't know the story. Being premature, people weren't prepared and some couldn't make it, maybe including father. Btw, I'd want my best friends there too. Wtf said anything about responsibility for them?

Unless the father died between impregnating you and your going into labor, I say you deserved this one. Clearly, you are either too young to be having children or too stupid to realize you shouldn't let a good-for-nothing, immature, irresponsible ass impregnate you.

He doesn't seem to be the father of it, so why should he make it HIS problem?

Well in all fairness, if he isn't the father then why on Earth would you expect him to come to watch another man's child being born?! & I completely agree with #137.

? so you have a crush yet your pregnant and he's not the father?

#13 - They are on most areas nowadays - just not in certain special areas where such things as lifesupport is essential where no risks can be taken.

#102 "Yet if someone DOES and then gets pregnant, and then realises that the relationship sucks, because they were only with them for three or four months all up, it's all her fault." Yes. Yes it is all her fault. She shouldn't have gotten pregnant. There are condoms and birth control pills available for free for people who need them, and if you're made a mistake or forgotten or it broke then there are morning after pills freely available. There is NO reason to get pregnant when you're not in a long-term, stable, economically sound relationship. I would love it if there was a way to enforce people having to PROVE they're responsible enough to be parents before they're allowed to have children. The world would be a much better place. PS. fermata I agree with you 110%

well, not a best friend in that case.