First baby, wife had been in labor for about 20 hours. Baby's heart rate was dropping, and everyone was getting very tense. The baby crowned but didn't move much further, and we were minutes away from an emergency c-section. There was fluid (and more), everywhere, wife was screaming and sweating, it was fucking brutal.
Baby comes out, wife is so out of it from the pain and exhaustion she had this 1000-yard stare for a couple of minutes before she snapped out of it (had refused all medicines). She was also bleeding quite badly from a tear when the baby came out.
In retrospect, it was a fairly typical delivery, baby was healthy, mom was healthy, we left the hospital on the usual schedule, etc.
Giving birth is quite literally a link to the human condition that is shared by all humans since the beginning.
First baby, wife had been in labor for about 20 hours. Baby's heart rate was dropping, and everyone was getting very tense. The baby crowned but didn't move much further, and we were minutes away from an emergency c-section. There was fluid (and more), everywhere, wife was screaming and sweating, it was fucking brutal.
Baby comes out, wife is so out of it from the pain and exhaustion she had this 1000-yard stare for a couple of minutes before she snapped out of it (had refused all medicines). She was also bleeding quite badly from a tear when the baby came out.
In retrospect, it was a fairly typical delivery, baby was healthy, mom was healthy, we left the hospital on the usual schedule, etc.
Giving birth is quite literally a link to the human condition that is shared by all humans since the beginning.