Somehow this reminds me of giving birth to my nine pound behemoth.
Doctor got stuck in blizzard and arrived about 20 seconds before baby. No episiotomy and also no drugs or epidural. So stitching me up took longer without a clean cut, but there is so much pain in the area, you don’t feel the stitching at all really anyway.
The nurse tells me she’s going to bring my baby to me during the sewing project, my husband has fallen asleep with him already. Her description was “he’s exhausted from doing nothing.” Accurate. Until the last half hour waiting to push because the doctor wasn’t there, labor was one of the easiest I had. Five hours in the afternoon. But husband was exhausted.
When he called relative who picked up our son at daycare to bring him to the hospital to meet his brother, he must have asked if we needed anything. Yes, husband needed nasal spray for a stuffy nose from that darn dry hospital air. He was going to get him to bring a nail clipper for a pesky hangnail but I convinced him that surely we could manage a hangnail with what was available in the hospital. I think we managed with the baby’s nail clipper to avoid a hangnail medical emergency.