No need to tell you a lot of details, because new fathers won’t remember them. Besides, trust the fact that the new mother will know everything! The main thing she needs from you is patience, understanding, love, some housework and a safe drive to the hospital. When she thinks she is going to deliver, I suggest you pack her in the car, along with the bag she already has assembled, and make a leisurely, though reasonably fast, dash to the hospital.
There are all degrees of contractions and centimeters (she’ll know about these) and she will call her doctor when she feels she is about to go into or is in labor. The time it takes can be from having the baby in your car on the way, to a two-day wait. Most babies,
Contractions
I’m told, it take 8 to 10 hours. Some, 20 or 30 hours . . . or longer!
You’re more than encouraged to be in the room with your wife and watch the delivery. In the not-too-distant past, you waited outside with other daddy’s-to-be, pacing and smoking and waiting to be told “Congratulations, you have a 7 pound 2 ounce baby boy (or girl) and the mother is fine. Would you like to see her?”
You then will shake hands with the guys still waiting and give them a cigar. Then, you’re allowed to see the mother and to peep through a large glass to look at your new baby.
But now, you get to watch what your wife goes through. The birthing nurse will give you a set of paper-like pajamas to put on in either blue or green and a mask and you feel like a doctor.
While your wife is having these contractions, she will be in pain. Stand by her, hold her hand, pet her hair, put your face near hers and maybe kiss her cheek. She knows you want to help but telling her to take it easy is a bad choice of words. You can be certain that she wants to take it easy and needs no reminding from you! You’re the main reason she’s in this predicament!
Ask her to breathe the way you both practiced in Lamaze but, by all means, try not to emphasize the word breathe. By now, chances are she isn’t aware what she learned. If she yells at you, forgive her, okay? She might not even know who you are! All she wants to do is . . . have the baby!
There are all degrees of contractions and centimeters (she’ll know about these) and she will call her doctor when she feels she is about to go into or is in labor. The time it takes can be from having the baby in your car on the way, to a two-day wait. Most babies,
Contractions
I’m told, it take 8 to 10 hours. Some, 20 or 30 hours . . . or longer!
You’re more than encouraged to be in the room with your wife and watch the delivery. In the not-too-distant past, you waited outside with other daddy’s-to-be, pacing and smoking and waiting to be told “Congratulations, you have a 7 pound 2 ounce baby boy (or girl) and the mother is fine. Would you like to see her?”
You then will shake hands with the guys still waiting and give them a cigar. Then, you’re allowed to see the mother and to peep through a large glass to look at your new baby.
But now, you get to watch what your wife goes through. The birthing nurse will give you a set of paper-like pajamas to put on in either blue or green and a mask and you feel like a doctor.
While your wife is having these contractions, she will be in pain. Stand by her, hold her hand, pet her hair, put your face near hers and maybe kiss her cheek. She knows you want to help but telling her to take it easy is a bad choice of words. You can be certain that she wants to take it easy and needs no reminding from you! You’re the main reason she’s in this predicament!
Ask her to breathe the way you both practiced in Lamaze but, by all means, try not to emphasize the word breathe. By now, chances are she isn’t aware what she learned. If she yells at you, forgive her, okay? She might not even know who you are! All she wants to do is . . . have the baby!
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