When someone has a baby in the movies, it’s a pretty hasty affair. The waters break, they have a few contractions, they push and breathe in short puffs for a bit (often in the back of taxi), and then a baby pops out, looking curiously clean and about 3 months old.
What they don’t tell you is that it’s all a load of bollocks. Jane’s waters broke about yesterday lunchtime, and she didn’t even twig. It wasn’t until about 23:30 that she returned from the bathroom saying “we need to go to the hospital”. I’ll spare you the gory details as to why we knew her waters had broken, suffice to say it would have all been decided a lot sooner if I’d have had a set of Pantone colour swatches for comparison purposes.
Very early this morning, the hospital confirmed that the waters had broken. So, I thought, the baby comes now, yeah?
No, apparently not. We got sent home with a explanatory leaftlet (it’s very hard to leave a hospital without an explanatory leaflet) and told to come back in two days, if the baby hadn’t decided to turn up of it’s own accord.
So, whatever happens, I’ll almost certainly be a dad by tomorrow night.
I think that fact will sink in in about… ten years.
I have nothing useful to contribute so I will merely say !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s been 8 years so far for me so far. Beleive me though it won’t be long till you become “Taxi Dad!” for music lessons, swimming club, school plays, after school club, birthday parties. Then it’s on to “drop me off round the corner dad” and “can I borrow the car?” 10 years? It”l be gone in a flash. Enjoy it!!!
Good luck! And probably by the time you read this… congratulations.
“When someone has a baby in the movies, it’s a pretty hasty affair. The waters break, they have a few contractions, they push and breathe in short puffs for a bit (often in the back of taxi), and then a baby pops out, looking curiously clean and about 3 months old…”
Erm… Yep that’s pretty much how ours went
And in response to your previous post, I’ll say a huge big YES to all the things you said people would throw at you… By Friday the world you know of now will officially end and you will be thrust head long (no pun intended!!!) into a completely alien world…
Exciting init
Fingers crossed all goes well.
You wait until you hold her/him for the first time!