I'm told that now we're registered at Target.
We started our Birthing from Within class, which I would have boycotted a few years back before discovering that certain aspects of hemp-weaving hippy culture work quite a bit better than their capitalist technocratic dopplegangers.
This week's discovery:
In the event of an unexpectedly fast labor & birth, DO NOT CUT THE CORD.
STEP AWAY FROM THE CORD.
LEAVE....THE CORD.....ALONE.
Unless!
The cord is too short to allow the baby to breast feed.
Breast feeding after birth shuts down bleeding (ain't the body amazing?) so it's sorta important.
Otherwise NO! NO! NO!
And according to the 'being a father' chapter of our assigned reading now is the time when I should be encouraging the wife to rest (if I did this she'd turn into a cat, sleeping 20 hours a day), offer to do the shopping (I already do all the shopping- another missed opportunity!) and pick up the slack in the kitchen (I already do all the cooking).
The best (and only useful) advice I've gotten is DTs stern instruction that the pregnant woman is always right.
So far, so good.
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