I think it's sad how clinical he sounds about the whole thing - imagine being the baby and growing up to read that article ... what should be one of the most exciting days of your parents' lives as long as it doesn't interfere with Dad's football match. I know I would feel completely undervalued.

The whole article is just sad.

I feel sorry for the woman too - I have been induced to give birth and if your body is not ready, it is not fun at all. I hope it doesn't take 3 days for the induction drugs to work for her like it did for me, that would make it a weekend, and we can't have their baby being born on a weekend. Doesn't he or she understand that nothing comes before the football???

I wonder if the woman is going along with it because that's the only way she is going to get the support of her partner. She is putting herself at a lot of risk and through quite a horrible, violating and traumatic thing as well and I'm not sure that she understands that it is not like going into labour naturally.