I had a home water birth with my DS. My husband was pleasantly surprised that there was actually no mess at all! My waters broke in the pool, baby was born a short time later and there was no blood (or guts!) at all in the water.
I overheard him talking to a mate afterwards and he was saying how surprised he was because he was expecting it to look like a "shark attack" had just happened!
I'm just glad he didn't come into the bathroom afterwards to deliver the placenta... THAT was messy!
My DH hates blood and guts, wont even watch it on TV but he did fine at the births, mind you he didn't really go down to have a look and kept right up need the head of the bed but he was fine. He even cut the cord for our first (he couldn't with our 2nd because it needed to be removed quickly).
You're all probably right -I'm sure he won't actually feint on the day (touch wood) I'm just worried about him not wanting to know too much about the in's and out's of medical procedures if there have to be any interventions. The opposite of me, researching everything to the nth degree and getting myself a bit frightened by topics like "birth rape" etc...
Thank you again for sharing, and for welcoming us to the forums - they're lovely messages to read.
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