Did your partner want to cut the umbilical cord?

[Celsie]

My DH didn't want to cut it either, so my Mum did it. She said it was quite hard to cut and the scissors they gave her were blunt. It's only going to be DH and I in there this time, so if he doesn't do it, I guess a midwife will. Funny... I just assumed it was something that all fathers would want to do. I do understand though, it is a little gross. I just thought men were tougher than that!

[Karina]

He was going to do it but when the time came he just stood there with a dumb look on his face and told my mum to do it!

[*LovemyKids*]

Well my DH said before the birth of our first son Cody that he was not too sure if he was going to be able to cut the cord, and with that comment i had decided that if he was not going to do it I wanted to do it. But as soon as the nurse asked him he took those scissors and cut it. So all three of our kids he has cut the cord.

But if he did not cut it then i would have!!

HTH Nikki