C-Sections
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Nice! I'm going to step up to the plate. We'll see if I can control my shaking :) But I won't be touching the umbilical cord, because we're storing it for medical purposes. Its a great source of stem cells, along with the Placenta.
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
I'm going to step up to the plate. We'll see if I can control my shaking
The first time I did it, I was shaking like mad. I could not control the scissor, the same way kids have hard time the first time they want to use scissors. During my second child's birth, I asked them and I was much stronger this time around ;)
Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
But I won't be touching the umbilical cord, because we're storing it for medical purposes. Its a great source of stem cells, along with the Placenta.
you don't need to touch it. They will hold it for you. Good for you. It may come handy one day. Good Luck
Yusuf May I help you?
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Has anyone been in the OR with their wife as she gives birth? My wife is having her C-Section soon and she's adamant that I go in with her. Being who I am, I can't stand not being in control of the situation. That would tense me up badly. But for her, I'll move heaven and earth and I'll go in. I'm just wondering if other fathers here have experienced it. YouTube videos are quite moving, but the way they treat some of those babies as they're pulling them out is a bit cruel IMO.
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I would not consider a C-section as giving birth, it is a surgical procedure and dammed if I would have been there if my wife had needed one. Having been through 2 (30 odd years ago) I can absolutely understand the control problem. I would have punched out the doctor except he was a young intern, built like a bull and had muscles on his muscles. Said muscles were user to haul the baby out of the wife using those large bent forceps they wrap around the babys skull. Being thee is a very intense experience, I'm still not sure if it was a good or bad one. Oh one thing, women forget, I promise you she will forget the agony of going through labor over the next year or two.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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I don't think the babies are treated cruelly, they are just got out of there and given medical care instead of a cuddle. I was there for both births, but it was not a C-section. I would be dead set against being there while they cut my wife open. Having said that, I'm sure I'd feel like I had no choice....
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I couldn't agree more with what Christan said. I've been there for all 4 of my kids and would of changed that for anything, even when my second lad decided the first thing he'd do was poop down his dads arm. C-section ouch (dont even want to think about that one!) but I'd have to be there if I was stupid enough to have more
As barmey as a sack of badgers Dude, if I knew what I was doing in life, I'd be rich, retired, dating a supermodel and laughing at the rest of you from the sidelines.
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Has anyone been in the OR with their wife as she gives birth? My wife is having her C-Section soon and she's adamant that I go in with her. Being who I am, I can't stand not being in control of the situation. That would tense me up badly. But for her, I'll move heaven and earth and I'll go in. I'm just wondering if other fathers here have experienced it. YouTube videos are quite moving, but the way they treat some of those babies as they're pulling them out is a bit cruel IMO.
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
Has anyone been in the OR with their wife as she gives birth?
Not yet, but I will be someday in the first week of May 2011. I hope it is all quick and as least painful as possible. For both your wife (after the operation) and my girlfriend.
Eduardo León
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Has anyone been in the OR with their wife as she gives birth? My wife is having her C-Section soon and she's adamant that I go in with her. Being who I am, I can't stand not being in control of the situation. That would tense me up badly. But for her, I'll move heaven and earth and I'll go in. I'm just wondering if other fathers here have experienced it. YouTube videos are quite moving, but the way they treat some of those babies as they're pulling them out is a bit cruel IMO.
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
I can't stand not being in control of the situation.
Heck, being a parent is a lifelong experience of learning how to be OK with not being in control! Marc
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Been there for both (C-Section, "natural"). Didn't really feel "helpless" as I was ready to club the ops staff to death if they fucked up, and I didn't have the forethought to clad my hand and arm in medieval armour(the hand and arm the wife was gripping at the time) Earmuffs would have been a good idea too.... (The C-Section was much easier on me, I recommend it)
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DABBee wrote:
Earmuffs would have been a good idea too....
Was so stoked about it I forgot about that.
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Has anyone been in the OR with their wife as she gives birth? My wife is having her C-Section soon and she's adamant that I go in with her. Being who I am, I can't stand not being in control of the situation. That would tense me up badly. But for her, I'll move heaven and earth and I'll go in. I'm just wondering if other fathers here have experienced it. YouTube videos are quite moving, but the way they treat some of those babies as they're pulling them out is a bit cruel IMO.
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Has anyone been in the OR with their wife as she gives birth? My wife is having her C-Section soon and she's adamant that I go in with her. Being who I am, I can't stand not being in control of the situation. That would tense me up badly. But for her, I'll move heaven and earth and I'll go in. I'm just wondering if other fathers here have experienced it. YouTube videos are quite moving, but the way they treat some of those babies as they're pulling them out is a bit cruel IMO.
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My wife had our first child with a C-section and it was a very quick and sterile operation. We had it scheduled for 8 and our son was out 8 minutes later. I stood by my wifes head and reassured her. There was a sterile screen at waist level and I never saw the "birth". The doctor held the baby up for a second for us to see, and then I met the baby at the nursery as I couldn't enter the sterile operating environment. It was a few hours later that my wife held our son. My wife just gave birth to our second child 3 weeks ago through a regular birth, and it was quite different. The birth was a lot slower and more effort, on her part. I just stood by and encouraged her as much as I could. The down side of the C-section is that you and your wife are going to be in the hospital longer, and her recovery is going to be slower as she will have to recover from surgery including changing the dressings on the wounds on top of giving birth. Though it's not as bad as an emergency C-section.
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
I can't stand not being in control of the situation.
Heck, being a parent is a lifelong experience of learning how to be OK with not being in control! Marc
There aren't enough points to award that one. 5 is all I could give.
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Has anyone been in the OR with their wife as she gives birth? My wife is having her C-Section soon and she's adamant that I go in with her. Being who I am, I can't stand not being in control of the situation. That would tense me up badly. But for her, I'll move heaven and earth and I'll go in. I'm just wondering if other fathers here have experienced it. YouTube videos are quite moving, but the way they treat some of those babies as they're pulling them out is a bit cruel IMO.
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My wife worked in Labor and Delivery for years and had 2 C-Sections. I was in the operating room for both of them. You sit up by your wife's head and hold her hand. It was not bad.
Steve Maier
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Has anyone been in the OR with their wife as she gives birth? My wife is having her C-Section soon and she's adamant that I go in with her. Being who I am, I can't stand not being in control of the situation. That would tense me up badly. But for her, I'll move heaven and earth and I'll go in. I'm just wondering if other fathers here have experienced it. YouTube videos are quite moving, but the way they treat some of those babies as they're pulling them out is a bit cruel IMO.
If the post was helpful, please vote, eh! Current activities: Playing Star Craft II. Don't bother me, eh? Now and forever, defiant to the end. What is Multiple Sclerosis[^]?
Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
Has anyone been in the OR with their wife as she gives birth? My wife is having her C-Section soon and she's adamant that I go in with her. Being who I am, I can't stand not being in control of the situation. That would tense me up badly. But for her, I'll move heaven and earth and I'll go in. I'm just wondering if other fathers here have experienced it. YouTube videos are quite moving, but the way they treat some of those babies as they're pulling them out is a bit cruel IMO.
My Missus had both kids by Cesarian Section and I was in there for both. I sat next to her and held her hand, I did not look while it was happening, I don't want to look inside my wifes guts. The other thing to note is what happens before the baby is pulled out. The incision is relatively small compared to what comes out. After the incision both doctors (one each side) put there hands in and pull back like they're trying to separate two thing held together by super glue. Quite unsettling, especially if your not ready for it.
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