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Today is the day that my second child is expected to enter the world...
It's amazing that my first child (Princess Boo-Boo is her full nick-name, thank you very much. Mustn't forget her royal title!) is now almost nineteen months old. And she's out to prove that her head is as hard as mine by headbutting me at every opportunity and then laughing insanely when she manages to do damage to my nose, mouth, eye etc. The apple really DOESN'T fall far from the tree...
It's funny when I compare my edginess-level with the first birth experience. To actually see a little person pulled out of my wife (Oh My God! There actually was a BABY in there!) for the first time was an incredible thing to witness, as well as to do the debrief about the experience afterward.
There are plenty of internet resources to explain it better than me, but let me just say that medicalized child-birth is treated by the hospital system as if it were an illness: the patient is immobilized and hooked up to machines and IV tubes and monitored by the nurse at a remote station. Whatever birthplan that you and your lovely wife decided on during the initial consultation gets thrown out the window, especially if you show up at 3 AM and the night-duty nurse is annoyed that she actually has to do something...(before any RN's flame me over this, my wife is an RN and knows how to scope a ward she's on, as nurse or patient...)
It was very Pythonesque...
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