OMG, is this it? Beta-chan, are you coming?

[Don_t_Call_Me_Shirley]

@Obsidian

Yay Beta! Fingers crossed for safety and health.

Stay standing by the door for when the baby comes by. My previously mentioned best friend had an emergency C. Her husband went to pee* thinking it would take longer and Grandma, Auntie and I were there alone when they came through with the baby within 5 minutes. I remember begging the nurse to stay RIGHT THERE while I booked it down the hall to get Daddy from the can.

*(this is actually the polite fiction of the ego. I believe he actually went to the bathroom so that he could break down and cry and not do it in front of all the women)

ETA: People will compliment you on the nice roundness of Beta’s head.

My wife had an emergency c. They took her bed from the delivery room and sprinted down the hall with it, with me in hot pursuit. They went straight into the OR, while I had to stop to put on a hat, mask, gown, and booties. As soon as I got those on I went into the OR, and they were already putting my baby boy under the heat lamp. It was that fast.