“PapaPete”
Its hard for me to believe but it’s now 24 hours since Gracie was born, 24 hours since I became a papa. Yesterday was hard for me, and before people send me comments about how hard it is for women having babies, I’ve been at the birth of my three children and realise the sacrifice women make carrying, giving birth to, and raising children, but I’m only writing this from my perspective as a papa and am in no way making comparisons with the suffering of those giving birth. Now that we’ve got that sorted – yesterday was so hard for me because I’ve been at the birth of my three children and been there witnessing all the stages of labour and even though they were in labour for a long time I always knew what was going on. Yesterday was different, I waited hour after hour not knowing what was happening, not knowing if everything was OK, Alan was with Carrie (rightly so) and so he couldn’t come out and let me know, and the medical staff were all busy so I had to wait, not knowing and that was what was so hard. Having to dismiss all the worrying thoughts from your mind and trust that everything was going to be fine. And thank God everything was fine.
