Having A Baby, With No Manual

Having A Baby, With No Manual

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Babies are always spoken about from the mother's point of view, but men have another experience in and we are always playing catch up. I firmly believe that mums have a nine month advantage on us, getting to know the baby, understand that there is something big going to happen. unfortunately i was still on page one when Zac arrived, sometimes I still thing i am not on the same pages the rest of te family!!

For me the first urgent situation was the drive into the hospital. Liz and I had discussed it at length. We live about 30 miles out of the city, so a 50 minute drive was estimated with normal traffic and of course keeping well within the speed limits. As soon as Liz became aware that baby was on the way I was to get a call on the mobile. I wanted to be organised and have Liz in well capable hands as early as possible, as I was not all too cool on the medical side of things and I would feel far calmer if I could be sure that there was a mid wife in the room!!

So after the call came I finished up and left the office to head home. I was greeted at the door by my father in law. He too liked to be organised and had carefully documented the time between contractions. Both mother and father in law dutifully handed over their daughter for me to finish what I had started! As I walked into the house I was unsure of what to expect but Liz took it in her stride. She was totally in control. She said we still had a wait before we headed for the hospital. I as usual was unsure if the wait was to be a long one or a short wait, there was no set timeframe. Five hours later it was time to go, the contractions had increased as Liz expected them to and the next stage was imminent.

The bag was packed for ages and had all the baby products were in it baby nappies, baby vests and all the various ointments that I would become overly familiar with over the next few months. As we sat into the car I asked are you ok to which I got a strained glance. Our now long in the distant detailed discussions had specifically required for me to drive carefully, stopping at all the traffic lights and obeying the rules of the road. This I did as a duty filled expecting father until we got half way to the city where my calm co driver!! let out a high pitched command that I speed up and get to the hospital NOW.

This is every guys dream, at the wheel of the car with an expecting mother beside him being commanded to hurry up. With the smell of burning rubber from the tyres I did just that and if stopped by the police I had the perfect get out of jail card! So we did speed up to the point that we got to the hospital in a record breaking 30 minutes with no interruptions from the Law. I whisked Liz into the maternity ward and handed her over to the medical staff, where after another eight hours delivered Zac. Our lives had now changed. Little did I realise that the trip into the hospital would be the last time there would be two people in our family.


Copyright (c) 2010 Joseph Liberti

About the Author:
When Zac arrived, Liz and myself created a card to send out to family & friends thanking them for their kind gifts. The interest was so great www.mybabycards.ie was born. Customers can take a card design, customise it with their own message of thanks and upload a baby photo, proof it and order direct to their door. The site is really simple to use and delivers to Ireland.



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