sggestions on dh doing something at birth please...

[Tyson86]

Hello planning a home birth and thinking of things to make it more memorable for dh, such as cutting the cord but dh not sure he would want to do that, any other suggestions would be great, this is our 2nd child btw. TIA

with our second and third my husband has cut the cord and also touched the head as it was coming out before the midwife even did.

I am about to have my third home birth and like yours, my DH didn't want to cut the cord or do anything gory like look down the business end!

He was my 'prop'. I walked a lot in labour and gave birth drapped over him whilst kneeling against the sofa.

His special job was that i wanted him to be the one to tell me what we'd had.

Agree with dancing, my DH loves that he was the one to see what gender our babies were and he got to tell me. Easy enough to do and to ask the staff to let him announce it!

Dh told me the sex of our baby the first time which was nice

Have had 2 homebirths. When DS was born DH had skin-to-skin after I had bf for first time which was lovely for both of them.

He didn't want to cut the cord either, muttered something about it having the texture of bacon rind

I would have thought it'd be fairly memorable for him anyway! I had a homebirth and DH's job was to sit opposite me (I was leaning on a birthing ball) and hand me a squeezy water bottle between contractions. The midwives kept trying to give him other stuff to do but I just wanted him there with me.

However, after dd was born she a bit cold and needed to be warmed up, but I was too cold myself and skin to skin with me wasn't working, so DH did skin to skin instead, which I think he remembers fondly.

The Home Birth Fathers Handbook may help - we're finding it pretty good.

Thanks, it will be memorable for him anyway but just wanted something unique for him to do.