View Poll Results: Birth of your children - good? bad? indifferent?
Good Experience
26
89.66%
Hated it
1
3.45%
Take it or leave it!
2
6.90%
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One for the Dads
18 August 2005, 04:28 PM
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I was talking to the SO last night, as you do. I made the point that I had never heard a bloke saying anything negative about the day theor kids were born.
The day my daughter was born was the worst of my life. Mainly due to complications, an emergancy operation and intensive care, and her looking like a haggis at the time. I don't know what it would have been like had it been a simple birth.
This got me thinking - do most blokes say it was a fantastic day and mean it, or is it just hard to admit you hated it? Or was it actually the best day of your life?
Interested to hear
The day my daughter was born was the worst of my life. Mainly due to complications, an emergancy operation and intensive care, and her looking like a haggis at the time. I don't know what it would have been like had it been a simple birth.
This got me thinking - do most blokes say it was a fantastic day and mean it, or is it just hard to admit you hated it? Or was it actually the best day of your life?
Interested to hear
18 August 2005, 04:51 PM
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My wife was induced and then had an emergency c-section, which was quite scary in itself.
However, once they passed the little man to me (cleaned I hasten to add
) I completely forgot about how he came into the world, and proceeded to boo my eyes out 
However, once they passed the little man to me (cleaned I hasten to add
) I completely forgot about how he came into the world, and proceeded to boo my eyes out
18 August 2005, 07:43 PM
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My wife went into a clinic for a routine check 1 month before the due date and they discovered that the placenta had broken up and the cord was wrapped round the baby's neck and so she was rushed for an emergency c-section. Horrible but fantastic day all in all. Everything following the actual birth was just the best feeling in the world!
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19 August 2005, 12:13 PM
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The best two days of my life, the 2nd being after a 72 hr Labour and incompetence of registrar and the ward staff, example, I had to change the Gas and Air bottle for not only my wife but for other women on the ward because the midwives didnt know how to do it and would have to call a porter WTF!! coupled with the fact that 90% of the midwives didnt give a sh*t about the husbands and just blanked us when we started asking any sort of questions relating to what was happening with our wives, soon fogotten once my daughter arrived 
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I recomend cutting the cord.
.I recomend cutting the cord.
19 August 2005, 01:10 PM
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One of the most horrendous experiences I've been through. Thought we were going to lose mum and baby. One minute it was just me, the missus and the midwife, the next it was a room full of people emergency operations and me wondering what was going on (but having a good idea nontheless).
Cried like a baby for ages went home, came back 3 hours later only to find the floor covered in blood and the wife about to go for an emergency transfusion.
Other than that...... I have a fantastic wife and an unbelievably beautiful baby girl (now 3) and things have never been better.
Cried like a baby for ages went home, came back 3 hours later only to find the floor covered in blood and the wife about to go for an emergency transfusion.
Other than that...... I have a fantastic wife and an unbelievably beautiful baby girl (now 3) and things have never been better.
19 August 2005, 02:15 PM
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We've obviously been very lucky .....
Our 1st daughter was born after a straight foward 6 hour labour at the hospital with our own village midwife and our 2nd daughter was born at home with the help of 2 midwives
2 of my greatest days ever
Our 1st daughter was born after a straight foward 6 hour labour at the hospital with our own village midwife and our 2nd daughter was born at home with the help of 2 midwives
2 of my greatest days ever
19 August 2005, 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by WRXJase
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"Wouldn't have missed it for the world but THE most stressful thing known to man"
"Wouldn't have missed it for the world but THE most stressful thing known to man"
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19 August 2005, 06:07 PM
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Originally Posted by David Lock
Quite right. And let's face it the girls have the easy job to do. Just need to lie down and do what they are told with the odd push every now and again.
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tut tut David!
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19 August 2005, 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by David Lock
hiyeee - any more on the way??? Not a chance!
Not yet anyway... I'll get back to you in about 3 years with some news maybe!!!!
Hope you and yours are well
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19 August 2005, 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by pwhittle
I was talking to the SO last night, as you do. I made the point that I had never heard a bloke saying anything negative about the day theor kids were born.
The day my daughter was born was the worst of my life. Mainly due to complications, an emergancy operation and intensive care, and her looking like a haggis at the time. I don't know what it would have been like had it been a simple birth.
This got me thinking - do most blokes say it was a fantastic day and mean it, or is it just hard to admit you hated it? Or was it actually the best day of your life?
Interested to hear
The day my daughter was born was the worst of my life. Mainly due to complications, an emergancy operation and intensive care, and her looking like a haggis at the time. I don't know what it would have been like had it been a simple birth.
This got me thinking - do most blokes say it was a fantastic day and mean it, or is it just hard to admit you hated it? Or was it actually the best day of your life?
Interested to hear
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Bearing mind the mans role is handholding etc not speaking for the mother,
and by the way oldest is 20 and the "joy" continues -don`t believe teens are the worst!
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