July 15, 2003

Wish Us Luck

Ever since today's exam (where we found out my sweetie is now dilated to nearly 4cm), Michelle has been bleeding on and off, and this evening at supper, there were a couple of big clots. So we're going in. Maybe there will be a baby by the time I post again. Wish us luck!

Posted by Observer at July 15, 2003 06:19 PM
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Good luck!

Posted by: Humbaba on July 16, 2003 12:59 AM

Good Luck!

Posted by: Bav on July 16, 2003 07:30 AM

Best of luck, folks. Observer, I hope you don't faint. It's your first time in a delivery room in, oh, 30 or so years, right? :-)

Posted by: Feff on July 16, 2003 10:04 AM

Does anyone faint these days?

Posted by: Humbaba on July 16, 2003 10:42 AM

A friend of mine, who I admit is childless, faints at the sight of blood and sometimes even at serious suggestions of visible blood loss. It's not fear; he's brave enough, and it's not accompanied by any other fear reaction. I've been there when he's done faint thing once or twice. Quite remarkable. Also, back in Psych 201 at UW (admittedly about 25 years ago) you got people (plural, mostly but not exclusively male) fainting during the videos of childbirth in the lecture hall.

Posted by: Feff on July 16, 2003 02:45 PM

Freaky. I can faint at the sight of extreme amounts of my OWN blood, but that's a loss-of-blood-to-the-brain thing, not the visual...

Posted by: Humbaba on July 16, 2003 03:52 PM

There's not much blood at a nice birth. I bled some at my first birth, none after the second-fourth. Of course after the placenta detaches there's blood, but dads don't usually watch that part.

There's a big difference between childbirth and medical procedures, though. There was an Oprah years ago about men who wished they hadn't watched, and they were upset about watching the episiotomy. I'd be pretty upset watching that too. I think Felicity has decided to decline that.

Posted by: Shamhat on July 16, 2003 05:55 PM

When my son was born, I "got to" (read, I knew it was coming and couldn't turn away fast enough to avoid seeing it; there's a story in there I will spare you) see the epesiotomy done. My wife didn't want one, but fetal distress (the boy had the cord wrapped around his head and arm, and the heart rate monitor was doing a roller-coaster track) overrides that preference. In short, I saw the Whole Thing, so I know that I don't have that fainting syndrome. I don't really regret seeing it; it just was a not-especially-pleasant segment of a larger something I am really glad to have experienced.

Posted by: Feff on July 17, 2003 11:46 AM