When all the expecting parents hear about is the terror stories they tend to forget that and get more wound up than they should.
All I tell the prospective fathers is prepare to feel as useless and helpless as you'll ever feel in your life. Good thing there are high quality trained staff taking care of things that make you pretty much expendable at that point in time.
As long as you guys know that when you say that people want to throat punch you. Obviously you want a healthy baby. Asking if it's a boy or a girl isn't insinuating that is more important than good health.
It just sounds like such a Facebook Mom thing to say. Ugh.
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When all the expecting parents hear about is the terror stories they tend to forget that and get more wound up than they should.
All I tell the prospective fathers is prepare to feel as useless and helpless as you'll ever feel in your life. Good thing there are high quality trained staff taking care of things that make you pretty much expendable at that point in time.
With my daughter I was pacing around, getting in the way, bumping into the nurse. Finally she walked over to the loveseat in the room, pulled out the bed, and told me to go to sleep.
"Your are gonna need it"
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Captain James P. DeCOSTE, CD, 18 Sep 1993
With my daughter I was pacing around, getting in the way, bumping into the nurse. Finally she walked over to the loveseat in the room, pulled out the bed, and told me to go to sleep.
"Your are gonna need it"
Even by my fourth I felt pretty useless. And while waiting for the big moment I couldn't stay awake to save my life. That heart monitor thingy makes the most incredibly soothing sound, knocks me out every time. For some reason my wife was never impressed.
When all the expecting parents hear about is the terror stories they tend to forget that and get more wound up than they should.
All I tell the prospective fathers is prepare to feel as useless and helpless as you'll ever feel in your life. Good thing there are high quality trained staff taking care of things that make you pretty much expendable at that point in time.
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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