[End Times Sentinel]

Bad judgement on his part.  I was only there for the last five minutes of each of mine and never saw anything.  Know your limitations.

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[new cruelty]

This story above is really sad. I can just imagine hospitals now insisting that the father not be present.

I helped deliver my first child (breathing, cutting the cord, and holding my daughter before handing her to the doctor) and plan to do the same for my second. I expected to feel a little queasy but actually thought the experience was incredible.

[Oberon]

Just after the birth of our first child, I made the mistake of looking as the doctor was applying some post-delivery sutures.

After the room stopped spinning, I held my wife's hand firmly and did not look any lower than her collarbones for the rest of the day. Woo!

[Tunehead54]

Woosie! I held my wife's hand through three C-sections with a good view of the action. Jeez! I could watch but I don't think I could do it myself. All our kids were 11 pounds plus - gestational diabetes thus the C-sections. I think our middle gal was 13.4 lbs.! Each kid was like an instant 6 month old!

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Sorry for the Dad though - what a terrible birthday. :-(