I find this thread really rather depressing. There seems to be a prevailing attitude that labour, bringing a life into this world, is not as important as the dh's job. Well, it is and I will tell you how I know.
I was at deaths door four years ago, thanks to a fuck up of major proportions at a swanky but useless private hospital. There was a crucial period of thirty minutes where I was going to drown in my own blood if the team could not dislodge the blood clots in my throat. The most hideous experience of my life, all while awake and in my bedroom, not in theatre. Anyway, as I was fading fast, I most certainly was not thinking of my career, the thought didn't occur to me. I was thinking about my child and my dh, and that is as it should be. And will be for almost all of you mothers and fathers.
Unless someone is mid operation or mid flight, there really is no bigger priority than helping your partner get through this life changing experience,.
As it happpens, I laboured at home whilst dh was working. I stayed home until 8cm, it was easier on my own. But the op has two other kids. She was let down last week and this week and she was concerned the same might happen on the due date or before. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with her being concerned.
You are doing yourselves a disservice girls, what mothers do is the most precious job in the world. It is madness to downplay it.
