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In reply to the discussion: I'm a Dad! [View all]talkingmime
(2,173 posts)She was an early morning baby. While the midwife and her assistant cleaned up, I hung a pink towel from the front window. That spared us a lot of phone calls. When they were done, my wife and newborn daughter were completely passed out. I went out into the world to brag about being a dad!!!!!
One of my stops was our "health food store", a tiny place called Earthward, not affiliated with anything else. I forget what I bought, but I wrote a check for $17.20 - pay to the order of $17.20. The bank cashed it anyway. I still have the cancelled check. My brain was on overload or something.
I was a little more reserved when the other two came along. All three were born in the same room of the same house with the same midwife. And that pink towel got three trips to the window. The blue one must have been sad.