God bless you and your wife. From the time my water broke until he cut the cord was about 45 minutes.
I had no intentions of being any kind of “hero” and was all for the drugs, but they weren’t ordered in time, so it was what it was.
I don’t choose to do it again, but I wouldn’t change that experience for anything.
I wasn’t a “forceps” baby, but I was a “by appointment” birth. That was 1960, and in ‘62 they were still doing it when my brother came along. When my mother woke up, there I was all nice and pretty and clean————but without a name. 3 days later she had to come up with one because the hospital was not letting me go without one.......
Fathers never really have it as bad as mothers, but I’m not sure which ones have/had it worse, those that are with us, or those who used to pace the halls.
It stands to reason why the mother is universally and historically held in the highest regard by all cultures.Even the mother of Jesus is exalted as much for her deed as for her offspring.
Men have always ruled but they can never compete with this ulimate act for the survival of the species—and they know it.
That’s why my greatest respect is for women who go the distance no matter what.