A labour of love (Natural Birth)

Member Name: cabletow

Product:	Natural Birth
Date:	23/09/01 (119 review reads)
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Advantages: Everything to me

Disadvantages: I am a man

Having just been happily delivered of our first born I wanted to give a man's view of his partner's labour.
I cannot describe the sensation in the delivery room when your wife is giving birth without using cliches. It was magical, like nothing I have experienced and my wife also agrees. Labour is not pain but a means to an end and the end is beautiful. My wife also now two weeks later is ready for another.
She went through 9 months of fear and trepidation and during the labour she surprised herself and at the birth we both wept with joy.
I was proud of her she at all times kept her dignity and delivered with some style she laboured for 9 hours and pushed the baby out in half an hour.
I am sure many out there have very much worse labours and really do suffer. We however had a normal labour and delivery. Normal means just that "normal". That is the kind of labour that most women have. For all those couples out there who are fearful of the delivery day all I can say is that the ends does justify the means.
We are not the only couple who think that. I ask you, if the majority of labours are terrible ordeals, why do most couples forget the experience? They must do or the world would be full of one child families.
Best wishes to all of you who are expecting and the journey into parenthood is an exciting and rewarding one for everyone.

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