After we’ve “checked in” to the hospital, I brought along my laptop only for music (I don’t think there was wifi access but my wife isn’t into surfing anyhow). As our baby was late, I had also slept on the floor just to stay with her while waiting for the inducement to kick in.

“Baby was stubborn” so even after inducing there was little activity but Wifey was already feeling the pain; where she finally opted for an epidural.

Thus, come delivery time, she couldn’t feel what she was doing: Am I pushing correctly, or even pushing at all?

Once it was all over, Wifey said it was very good that I was standing behind the Dr during delivery, giving her the thumbs-up feedback that the baby was coming out- that she was in fact pushing “correctly”. That feedback helped tremendously during the process.

Being there throughout was a good thing, even though there was little I could do to ease the whole ordeal for her.