Big Smile, No Teeth: Magical vs Nightmarish – The two sides of having a baby

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'Childbirth was magical. Having a kid was awesome. 'But then we took the baby home and things became very much less awesome.' - Jason Godfrey

My boy was born on the eve of Covid-19, right before the world realised how bad things were going to get. I was still allowed into the delivery room to be with my wife as she was giving birth, a luxury many hospitals no longer allow. My wife also didn’t have to wear a mask during labour. So we had a decidedly pre-pandemic delivery.

I was impressed by my wife’s ability to prioritise the nutrient-giving placenta over the comfort and ease of the umbilical cord. Good work, honey. Friends who had babies at the same time were posting photos and declaring the birth of their baby was their happiest moment in life. Smiling photos of them looking fresh and happy, baby grinning a gummy toothless grin... and all I could think was, if you took a photo of us with our boy, it’d look like we both got hit by a truck and our baby would be screaming his head off.

 

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