For Dads or Dad-to-be

If you're given the opportunity to cut your new born baby's umbilical cord, will you do it?

Just a curious question.

Hubby and I are watching the Discovery health last night about the Duggar family--Raising 16 Children. They showed Michelle giving birth to their 16th child with her two oldest daughters in the labor room + her husband. Her husband cut the baby's umbilical cord.

Theo told me that he would love to do the same thing with our baby (not preggy yet but planning). He said he'll be really happy if the doctors will let him do it.

I did it for both of my sons when they were born!!

My wife is expecting our first in June. I will cut it if offered but for me it is no big deal. I have helped birth thousands of pigs and a few other animals on the farm so I don't expect this one to be too much different. Maybe less hair.

I told my wife not to worry unless I put on a pair of gloves and elbow the doctor aside.

Hi, this is Irene (Ozzy-wife)'s husband, Ralph.

I don't have my own id anymore so Irene asked me to use hers. I was just on the way to posting a birth announcement when I saw this post.

Irene had a baby boy this morning and I cut the cord. The same thing for our first baby. The midwives here always ask the father to cut the cord.

Oh well, better get going and post the announcement now.

Ralph

Hey Ralph, COngratulations on the new baby boy! FInally. Irene's been waiting for this for about a week now. I guess now she's getting some rest.

ABout the cord cutting, i don't know if my husband would have the nerve to do that. My husband never was squeamish, or rather worried about blood, or anything like that. He's had blood drawn from him every year for tests, and he's seen his parents blood drawn from them as well. And then we got married, and we had some bloodwork done for me, so we went to the doctor and had blood drawn. The nurse, whom i wasn't sure if he just graduated or if he was just an idiot (sorry, but if you were in my position you would have thought the same) instead of just removing the needle, just poked it around under my skin to get to the vein. I was in pain and my husband who was watching the whole thing almost fainted. He probably felt my pain since i was squinting the whole time, and he couldn't do anything (he was afraid the nurse might do something worse, like panic and break the needle or something like that). I guess even though that was a painful incident, it was sort of mushy. My husband said he's never felt pain for anyone like that until that moment.
Hopefully when we do have kids he won't faint in the delivery room. Cause he's too big for the nurses to catch!

IRENE & RALPH,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! IT'S TIME TO CELEBRATE!!!! YEEEHHEEEYYYY!!!!!...

Regards,


Ella

Ella, thank you for your congratulations. I will pass them on to Irene.

Lee, it really was bad seeing Irene in pain and knowing that it was going to get worse before it gets better. I suppose it's even worse because it happens in the middle of the night and we were both tired. I did feel useless knowing that there was nothing that I could really do to make the pain go away, just feed here more gas

Anyway, I suppose with the cutting of the cord. If you are able to go through seeing the birth you should be more than happy with cutting the cord.

Ralph

no! I FAINT!