My son was born yesterday afternoon. Absolutely crazy day, wife woke up at 4am with severe backache but no contractions. Waters broke at 7:45am, the timing couldn't have been worse as we then met all the rush hour traffic as we came into the city on our way to hospital.I should probably expect a couple of traffic tickets as I definitely broke some laws - doing 67kmh in a 50kmh zone etc. but my wife was in a lot of pain sitting in traffic so that was stressful.
Once we got to hospital we had our own room with two lovely nurses. My wife had to be induced as they found traces of meconium in the waters, increasing chances of infection. She was induced at 12:30, we were told it normally takes about 5hrs to bring on active labour. At 1:30 she had an epidural and at 3pm the nurse did an exam as my wife felt the epidural hadnt worked and it turned out she was fully dilated and baby was crowning! So after a short half an hour of pushing, a new little Wolf cub was born at 3:30pm. So so proud of my wife and bursting with love and pride looking at my little boy.
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