YOU: Having a Baby by Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet C. Oz

Author:Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet C. Oz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2009-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

Factoid: Worried that the fire-breathing dragon tattoo on your lower back will interfere with an epidural? Don’t be. Though there’s a lot of concern these days about inked-up moms getting a needle of another kind, there’s no research to suggest that there’s any risk involved.

Father Figures

During labor, dads can feel as useless as toothless cobras. While partners can’t erase the pain of delivery, they can do a whole lot of good in other ways. Some options to turn a helpless feeling into a helpful one:

• Massage your partner.

• Communicate with loved ones in the waiting room and in other parts of the world; have the laptop and camera charged and ready to go.

• Be in charge of the suitcase to bring to the hospital (see page 249 ), making sure that everything’s in there.

• Promise to do whatever she you wants you to do, whether it’s being silent, singing and dancing, or offering up your jaw for her to punch straight on.

• Take great pictures in the delivery room. Some good shots: the big clock in the delivery room at the time of birth, the scale when the baby is being weighed, the room number where the baby was born, the doctor/nurses/midwife, and even the placenta. (Some will say it’s gross, but it was your baby’s lifeline.) And, oh yeah, maybe one or two of the baby.

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