Stop — labor time!

So humans have been having babies for thousands of years, but if you listen to all of the mothers out there who want to tell you their horror stories, you might be wondering how.   The answer, as far as we can tell, is that labor isn’t as bad as it’s made out to be if you’re a healthy human female.

My wife is one of those, and she’s in labor right now.  She’s chilling on her computer playing Civilization IV (she’s always Egypt).  I have to ask her if she’s having contractions still – once she got used to them, it was ho-hum.  The advice we got from the birth classes would have us in the hospital by now, but seriously, why lock ourselves into a tiny room with people stressing her out with tests and stuff?  Babies happen without that kind of interference every day all over the world, and ours can do it, too.

Now, we’ve been ready for weeks — bags packed, snacks prepared, call lists made, etc.  The baby’s room is almost perfect, and we have everything a parent could possibly need except a nursing bra.  But with everything all ready, the early stages of labor is almost boring.  That’s a good thing, in case you couldn’t tell.

Just more proof that being healthy – really healthy — makes life better in every way.