Living with a pregnant wife

I asked the wife when she was preggo with the first one if we should go to some sort of class to know what to do. Her response was "people have them on a dirt floor in third world countries every minute of every day, if we're at the hospital and it's coming, then it's going to happen no matter what sort of breathing or other bullshit we payed a "coach" for." We laugh at friends who do all this crazy underwater natural stuff...it's a baby , go to the doctor and get it out. I'll never forget when my son was born she was cooking dinner and said " it's time , I've been having contractions for several hours and it's time." We lived about 10 minutes from the hospital and from the time she said it was time until I was holding my son was less than 45 minutes.
 
BIGWOODY said:
I'll never forget when my son was born she was cooking dinner and said " it's time , I've been having contractions for several hours and it's time." We lived about 10 minutes from the hospital and from the time she said it was time until I was holding my son was less than 45 minutes.
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Yeah, our experience is that #2 pretty much falls out if you're not careful. #3, not so much.

Cyd only had four contractions inside the birth center when Robert was born.
 
shawn said:
Yeah, our experience is that #2 pretty much falls out if you're not careful. #3, not so much.

Cyd only had four contractions inside the birth center when Robert was born.
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Ha. Jonas (first) was a winner on push #2. But he was 7 weeks early and pretty, er, malleable so it wasn't such a hard squeeze. Not the best example.

Delaney (#2) was born 5 mins after arriving. Birth center was ~25 min drive from home. And that was doing ~95 mph on I95. That shit was a little scary.
I wasn't even there when she popped out, I had just done paperwork and parked car. She didn't even make it past the 1st door of Triage... they wouldn't let me in by then b/c of the chaos.
 
Oh and my wife was born on a cart outside the birthing center b/c they "weren't ready for her yet" lol. Shit happens.
 
To each his/her own.

I am grateful for the choice to use a midwife and a birth center that treated my pregnancies as life events to be enjoyed/celebrated, not illnesses to be managed, because hospitals scare me. I didn't want to not feel safe and we didn't want to have to argue with hospital staff over it when we had better things on which to focus. If I had been in a hospital for my first, they would have rushed me into an unnecessary C-section. It wasn't easy (sunny side up babies are NOT easy) but she and I were both ok, so they didn't freak out.

The second one almost 'fell out,' as Shawn already mentioned... and the third one was even born in the tub. :lol: It was awesome.
 
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