We were on a telcon discussing the agenda for an upcoming meeting. The speaker says: "Mr. X won't be able to attend the meeting because his wife is having a baby at that time".
What a way of saying he is becoming a father! Is not he having a baby as well? He says as if it is a significant event in the wife's life only and he is staying as a favor or service to her not because he does not want to miss his child's birth.
Is it me or does this phrasing sound strange to you too?
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I agree! I also found it strange when dad is taking care of the baby and someone says he is babysitting. He doesn't babysit his own baby; he is parenting.
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