If Dads Got Pregnant, Dating Would Flip

If dads got pregnant, it wouldn't just be "fair". It would flip who chases who in love. Here's why. what if dads got pregnant | what if men got pregnant | male pregnancy | seahorse male pregnancy | why seahorse dads give birth | animated what if Imagine your dad, nine months pregnant, raiding the fridge at 2am for pickles and ice cream. Most people think dads carrying the babies would just be fair. In this animated what if story, we find out it would change far more than that. Male pregnancy is real in the ocean: seahorse dads grow a placenta-like pouch, feed their babies oxygen, fat and calcium, and give birth to as many as a thousand young. Then we hand the job to a human dad: the body bill of pregnancy, dad leave, pregnant football players, and Dad in labour. The bigger twist is love. Biologist Robert Trivers showed that whoever invests most in each baby gets to be choosy. In pipefish, where the dads are pregnant, the females grow bright stripes and fight over the males. In jacanas, the females are bigger and keep several males sitting on their eggs. So if human dads carried the babies, dating would turn upside down. And some of it is already happening: real fathers' testosterone drops after a baby arrives, some expectant dads get pregnancy symptoms of their own (couvade syndrome), and first-time fathers' brains change. If dads carried the babies, what's the first thing that would change in your house? Tell me in the comments. CHAPTERS 0:00 Dad, nine months pregnant 0:26 Wouldn't it just be fair? 0:51 How seahorse dads get pregnant 1:34 The sea dragon 1:49 Change 1: Dad's body 2:28 Life with pregnant dads 2:49 Dad goes into labour 3:12 Change 2: who chases who 3:50 When the dads get picky 4:09 The bird that flips it too 4:29 Dating, upside down 4:52 Change 3: already inside your dad 5:22 Dads with pregnancy symptoms 6:15 The rule 6:32 Back to Dad