[mikester]

Well, that was pleasant...

I was there for my son's birth and I wouldn't change it and if we end up in that situation again I will probably be in there again. My purpose? Moral support and not to look.

Guys - I'm telling you - Don't look. Girls just do not understand the damage looking at what is coming out of their vagina can do to a man. It 'changes' you for a long time and takes some time to get past before you can plant your face in the pie again.

So, Guys don't look and girls - don't make us look.

I feel like I was smart (except that I looked which was dumb) because I insisted that she have her closest friends there to support her as well as me (the hospital allowed it).

It worked out well and made the experience very good for her (that and the epidural).

I would not have minded totally sitting in the waiting room taking a nap but in the end I am happy that I did not. I was there for the first moments of my son's life outside the womb. He had some very minor complications that mad the neonatal folks have to move quickly in the very beginning to make sure he was breathing and getting oxygen but it was quick (though likely the longest 90 seconds of my life up to that point). Had I not been there I would not have been able to help my wife through those moments with my presence next to our son.

So...to each their own.