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Originally Posted by manwiches
Congrats! My wife had an emergency c-section with our little guy, and honestly, it is single-handedly the scariest, worst, best feeling I've ever felt in the world. What appears to be absolute chaos and terror to us, is routine and easy for the team that assembles in like 10 seconds, and then minutes later it's more or less done.
I remember going from tired as hell from 12 hours of labour, to concern when the nurse commented about the heart rate, to absolute panic and shock when the doctor came in and called for the emergency c-section and 5-6 people ran in. I was in such survival mode for my wife that i was trying to calm her down the whole time, until they carted her in the OR, and then the nurse told me to wait outside. Right at that point when she told me to sit and wait, I broke down and bawled like a baby, for what seemed like 10 minutes. Composed myself after a talking to by the nurse, in the OR, tried to keep my wife calm through the drugs, and then absolute utter elation hearing my son cry.
The process our SOs go through to bring a baby into this world, is on another level.
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Man, reading this thread gives me joy but tons of anxiety too. I don't know if I have what it takes to handle the childbirth that is mere weeks away for me now. I need to be strong, but I don't know if I can be.
Then I'm reminded that what we bros go through pales in comparison to what the women go through.
