I held her trembling hand, talked to her, showed her our families' encouraging messages on my phone, read books to her, kissed her and hugged her so she could feel loved and calm and secure... kept doing this for 10 hours until the doc decided a C-section was needed and didn't allow me into the surgery room 😠 Made me mad af because up until then they were all "everything is OK, keep doing this" and then suddenly "we're taking her away to do a C-section, go wait outside". I was FUMING in the waiting room.
Luckily everything turned out OK and I was able to apply skin-on-skin and all that while she recovered, but 10+ years later I still feel like they robbed me of a key dad moment.
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