Giving birth: the aftermath Suddenly, after all of the chaos, uncertainty, drama and emotion, there’s silence. The midwives clear the room and fetch you tea and toast (you, the dad, will never be more grateful for a
Giving birth: the main event I woke up at 3am to a phone call from Maddy. This must be the moment, I thought. I sleepily answered:
Giving birth: the prelude I kept coming back to analogies: it’s going to be like taking your driving test, I told myself. You spend months taking lessons, knowing that on some indeterminate future date, you’ll be expected
Familiarise yourself I considered myself reasonably well-informed about my partner’s biology. We’d been together for over a decade before we started trying to conceive and me being a progressive, feminist liberal man (come on, this
The secret keepers It’s a strange one. You have something you want to tell all your loved ones, but at the same time, it’s crucial they don’t find out just yet.
