As a dad myself, dudes who willingly deny themselves being in the presence of the miracle of childbirth let alone being there for the entirety of what comes after baffles me.
I will never forget the birth of my son. Our first kid and my wife did amazing. He took a LONG time to cry. Long enough that a nurse started jogging to the NICU emergency phone on the wall. She was just picking it up when he finally cried. It must have been 30 seconds max, but it felt like an eternity. I went from joy, to sheer dread that felt like a bottomless abyss climbing up out of the depths of hell and grabbing my throat, right back to the highest high of pure joy that I’ve ever felt as I watched color fill his face and things progressed normally. I cried the most intense, emotionally complicated tears of my life, haha. I wouldn’t trade that moment for anything in the world. Idk how a guy could ever be okay missing that stuff.
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