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re: How important is it for the father to be present for his child's birth?
Posted on 4/7/16 at 9:46 pm to rebeloke
Posted on 4/7/16 at 9:46 pm to rebeloke
I finally won tickets to Tuesday's practice round of the Masters, and found out my wife was due with our second child two days before I was supposed to leave. The doctor agreed that I should attend the Masters, because it may be the only time I ever get to go, so we induced my wife a week early. 
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Posted on 4/7/16 at 9:47 pm to TedStickles
That's what I'm talking about! 
Posted on 4/7/16 at 9:47 pm to rebeloke
My husband was their for the first and not for the second. It makes no difference.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 9:49 pm to rebeloke
Poli board
Posted on 4/7/16 at 10:04 pm to arseinclarse
Posted on 4/7/16 at 10:14 pm to ehidal1
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I would never forgive myself if I missed it. Nothing about work is that important.
That being said, it's like a welder's arc or the Ark of the Covenant's ghosts...don't look directly at it during the event.
I was there for my daughters birth but I didn't look. I held my wife's hand and had my head rested on her shoulder with my eyes closed. I started crying when i heard my daughters first noises.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 10:47 pm to 632627
Posted on 4/7/16 at 10:50 pm to rebeloke
I work out of state, so it was iffy, but I made it.
Got there, kicked the mother in law out, and my wife delivered with just me and the doctor/nurse there. Crazy but awesome experience.
It was bad, but not that bad. No worse than cleaning a deer and dumping the guts.
Got there, kicked the mother in law out, and my wife delivered with just me and the doctor/nurse there. Crazy but awesome experience.
It was bad, but not that bad. No worse than cleaning a deer and dumping the guts.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 11:07 pm to rebeloke
It has to be pretty important. It was one of the first things my attorney asked me when I was hiring him for my custody case.
But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 11:12 pm to Errerrerrwere
Really? That is strange. If you had missed it for say work, would that have been a strike against you?
This post was edited on 4/7/16 at 11:13 pm
Posted on 4/7/16 at 11:15 pm to rebeloke
There's pretty good movie on Netflix called Locke avout this very subject.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 11:18 pm to rebeloke
i'm with you. kid never remembers; wife never forgets.
i almost puked when i saw my youngest getting cut out of her mother's belly. ugh.
i almost puked when i saw my youngest getting cut out of her mother's belly. ugh.
Posted on 4/8/16 at 12:05 am to rebeloke
Was there. Early in the AM. Slept in the chair next to her until the doc showed up. Then I was up & ready. I begged to be able to reach in & grab those slimy suckers (kids were all C-Section). Was denied both times. What a jip. I mean, we paid out the arse for them to be born-why couldn't I reach in there & have some fun?
Posted on 4/8/16 at 12:18 am to 3deadtrolls
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No worse than cleaning a deer and dumping the guts.
This exactly. I was there for all 4 of mine and you couldn't have pulled me away with a 1 ton. 3 natural, one c-section. For my 2nd girl, the doc was running late so the nurse and I delivered. That was something...not so much the fluids and blood..but...all the pulling....all the stretching...yep, that was something.
Posted on 4/8/16 at 12:22 am to go_tigres
I was in the final week of a 12 month jail sentence when my second boy was born, but the damned sheriff wouldn't give me a furlough to be there. I think that is why that kid and I have never really bonded.
Posted on 4/8/16 at 12:40 am to Twenty 49
Posted on 4/8/16 at 4:45 am to rebeloke
I was there for both of mine. Both c-sections. Looked both times and almost fainted. Don't judge me.
Posted on 4/8/16 at 5:34 am to Nodust
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Plenty of dead beat dads show up on day 1. It's the rest of the days that count.
Being there for delivery is not very important.
One is not mutually exclusive of the other. This is the first time you get to meet a human being that is going to be as close to you than any other human on the planet biologically speaking.
I didn't think it would be that big of a deal. The whole pushing thing never got me nervous or excited. She ended up getting a section after the pushing didn't lead anywhere. Was more nervous about her being under the knife at first and didn't think about the baby coming any second. When I heard that baby cry, I about lost it. I never cried, but it was hard to talk. Just a crazy feeling. I remember just thinking how ugly that baby was and how it didn't look like me, and maybe my wife cheated, but still just wanted to hold him so badly
. Its a feeling Ive never had before or since and couldnt imagine missing. That ugly thing ended up looking like me after a few days and I couldn't imagine being anywhere else. If you have something to do that is necessary for your family, I understand. But personal accomplishments are pretty selfish. In the golf example, that kid would be a much more prized possession than the green jacket.
Posted on 4/8/16 at 6:24 am to rebeloke
going through this thread, I bet some of you actually asked the doc to "put an extra stich in there for me"
Posted on 4/8/16 at 6:28 am to rebeloke
Not important IMO for the birth but for everything after that it's a must. Oh yeah, they have waiting rooms for a reason.
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