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Where should I stand: Dad in the Delivery Room

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The baby is COMING NOW. It's the first decision you have to make in your soon to be young baby's life. Where should you stand? Because... I'm going to tell you this from personal experience... If you choose wrong you are going to see things you CANNOT un-see. OK so your little one is about to make his first appearance. Where should I stand, how much do I really want to see of this miracle of life? Oh dear god is that the top of a hairy head? Why can't we go back to the days of fathers being the delicate fainting flowers who cannot be tolerated in the delivery room, so we can go saddle up to a bar next to the hospital, too insecure in their constitution that they shouldn't be subjected to the bloody, shitty reality of having a baby. You know back when "America was great". Honestly I wouldn't have missed being there the moment my son met the world kicking screaming and covered in blood for anything in the world. But let's be real,  af