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Originally Posted by Ruttiger
Agreed.
I was iffy about the whole idea until watching my wife go through the 9 months of pregnancy and then a labour and delivery that was anything but routine (is there such a thing as a routine birth experience?). She went through 3 days of contractions, 12 hours of hard, induced labour, and then a semi-emergency C-section which saw our child stuck and then got a little dicey afterwards due to my wife's hemophilia - I started to envision the opportunity to be a mother being taken from her entirely when they couldn't stop the bleeding.
After seeing her go through that whole process, then to be in the hospital for days afterwards, not to mention the whole recovery from a C-section with complications, a token to express my heartfelt thanks, gratitude, and frankly, awe of everything she went through to bring our daughter safely into this world seemed like the very least I could do.
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Holy crap. She deserved a new car for that effort. Good for her. And good for you for appreciating what she did.
I think for many women, it's not that they expect anything, and a kind word of thanks or expression of appreciation that what they went through was pretty extreme is all they would really like.