Girlfriends due date coming soon

My 2nd one was born 8 years ago. As the missus was huffing and puffing in the maternity ward there was a light on a spring at goal end. Only problem was the spring had snapped off and the midwife told me i had to hold it.

I saw everything and to this day I've never eaten spaghetti bolognese again. That placenta thing was like my missus was giving birth to an alien ....
 
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You're there to help your girlfriend. There's next to nothing you can do to help her with the birth itself unless you happen to be a midwife(*) or suitably trained doctor (and likely not much then - she'll be doing the hard work), so you're almost certainly more use to her by her head, where she can see you. It's easier to be supportive of someone when you're where their mind and main senses are.

But really, it's between you and her rather than between you and us. It doesn't get much more personal. What do you want? What does she want?


* You would be a midwife in the literal meaning of the word, but I'm talking about a trained midwife.

EDIT: Out of interest, does anyone have direct, proven knowledge of a woman breaking someone's finger while giving birth because of the strength of her grip? Maybe it's an urban myth, but it seems like a possibility. People can have a hell of a grip in extreme circumstances and fingers aren't that strong.
 
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Angilion said:
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EDIT: Out of interest, does anyone have direct, proven knowledge of a woman breaking someone's finger while giving birth because of the strength of her grip? Maybe it's an urban myth, but it seems like a possibility. People can have a hell of a grip in extreme circumstances and fingers aren't that strong.
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yeah Bob down the road said mate.
 
Are you planning on operating a TENS machine? Does nowt for her but it will make you feel like you are contributing. Oh, and if any of the connectors come apart turn the machine off before putting them back together otherwise you'll give your other half an electric shock. Guess how I found that out.
 
"AAAaaaaargh YOU did this to me!!!"
"Well if you'd taken it up the bum like I asked, you wouldn't be in this state..."
 
I'm a nurse and have seen shooting wounds, stab wounds and cuts so deep you can see the bone, yet I honestly nearly fainted clean away when I saw my sisters baby crowning. :(
 
General consensus is to Stay at the head end and just out Of arms reach then? Lol. Ive got A chain mail glove i use for pike fishing, might have to sneak it On to stop my fingers being broken/gouged if she catches me!!
 
Angilion said:
EDIT: Out of interest, does anyone have direct, proven knowledge of a woman breaking someone's finger while giving birth because of the strength of her grip? Maybe it's an urban myth, but it seems like a possibility. People can have a hell of a grip in extreme circumstances and fingers aren't that strong.
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My mum knocked a doctor out cold at the birth of my sister. New doctor and mum was having a difficult birth due to previous medical complications (cancer meaning she had lost a large part of her uterus and one of her ovaries as well as massive amounts of scar tissue etc). Doc kept getting in her face asking how this was feeling and that was feeling. In the end she just lashed out and knocked him out cold. Nurses continued working around his prone form on the floor. Turns out he was a bit of an insufferable twit and nobody could stand him
 
If holding her hand wear a steel gauntlet because no matter how strong/weak you thought your other half is you are wrong and you will get a crushed hand. :D

On a happier note, good luck and i hope everything goes well.
 
sports_brah said:
Tell me, I'm curious!
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Lazder said:
Is it that bad? I am scared to type it into google :(:(
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I would be ok watching now, but I was 18 and full of bravado regarding watching the whole thing.

I was just awestruck and sickened in equal measure at the sight of 'it' being stretched to such an extent to expel a 9lb, 4 limbed baby.

When I saw the crowning, I stayed up at the head end, holding her hand :D
 
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