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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was there during labor but had told my wife way ahead of time that I would not be there during delivery.

Frankly, there is little nothing that a husband can do for his wife when she is delivering. I think at least some husbands are there only because there is pressure on them to be present. People are still surprised when I say that I was not present ...... almost as if I committed some sort of major crime.[/quote]

Why didn't you want to be there?  Didn't want to see your wife in pain?  The blood/gore?  [/quote]

Probably a combination of those factors. It was something that I did not want to do and fortunately my wife understood it So I was not there for any of our children's birth but was with her through the entire labor.

Like I said we've been married over 20 years. One's marriage and commitment to the marriage is not determined by a husband's presence during delivery. She has never held it against me ...... there are so many more important elements in a relationship than being there when a spouse delivers.[/quote]

Not judging at all  just curious.  I told my own husband he didn't need to be with me during the actual delivery...he was having major anxiety about it.  Mostly about seeing me in agony and not being able to do anything to help.  At the end, I had a c-section and he did come with me, since there wasn't the agony factor.  I was just interested if it was a similar thing.

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