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Originally Posted by Slava
I didn't feel useless, but obviously I didn't really do anything except watch (from the head end would be my strong suggestion!). For us, things went totally fine and I just tried to relax and take it all in. Then when it was time I just cut the cord, which was pretty cool.
The weirdest part or the part where it really hit home that I was a father is when we were driving home for the first time. It was kind of like "oh my god, I am taking my child home with me" or something like that. Just really hit me at that point I guess. Like suddenly you're driving home as a family where in the hospital it was different because you were out of your element anyway, so there was kind of no impact if that makes any sense.
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When it hit me was when it was time to leave the hospital. We were waiting in the room for permission to leave with the baby for like an hour after being discharged. Then it donned on us that it was our baby and we could just take it whenever we wanted. Up until that point, it kind of felt like it was the hospital's baby.