For a young woman in Australia, however, it was her Tinder date who stayed by her side as she gave birth.
In a TikTok video that’s going viral, the woman Alyssa Hodges said Max Silvy was by her side when she went into labour and gave birth to her son Ollie, despite matching on the app just eight weeks earlier.
Hodges, in the video which has garnered more than 1 million views, said she was supposed to pick him up from the airport.
Hodges added that Silvy did go home to drop off his luggage from a work trip but then turned up at the hospital to see her.
“I was about six-and-a-half-months pregnant when I went on Tinder, and I clearly stated that on my bio,” 20-year-old Hodges from Brisbane told Kennedy News.
The pair explained that as Silvy, a civil servant, travels a lot for work they had only seen each other three times before he ended up coming to her delivery in September last year.