[Leica] WAS: LUG 2010 YEAR BOOK! PETER! :-) NOW DOCTOR. :-)

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

  Great.  For our last child, my wife wanted to do the "Lamaze natural 
childbirth" thing.  I went to classes with her, and as nearly as I could 
tell my role was to be in the delivery room to offer support with 
breathing etc.  Anyway, our last was three weeks premature.  On a rush 
trip to the ER, spouse wanted "the ******* shot".  Too late, they said, 
it is happening now.  So I was in the delivery room in a gown and mask, 
offering support.  This now involved holding spouse's hand, which kept 
pressing fingernails into my palm, causing a substantial blood loss (no 
single-malt in the delivery room).  Every once in a while an assistant 
would pass me a towel to wipe up the blood and give me an easily 
translatable look.  Such fun, but the kid turned out OK so no regrets.

Ken

On 9/19/2010 6:44 PM, tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote:
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>
> I know very well how to delivery babies.... been there about 200 times 
> shooting, watching, listening to directions and all the necessary 
> interesting thingies. :-) And watched a couple of "father's to be 
> faint!" We just left them on the floor until the important part was 
> finished. :-) One guy put his camera up, looked through the viewfinder 
> at the mother's crotch as the baby was emerging and promptly collapsed 
> to the floor! ... hell he never even went "click! :-) The ruth is.... 
> trust me....
> "" THERE ISN'T ANY PICTURE THERE THE MOTHER WOULD WANT TO SEE IN ANY 
> EVENT!"
> The doc step around him for a few minutes until a couple of nurses 
> dragged him out of the way! :-)