What to Do During Delivery

It’s still not completely over. You’ve been at the hospital for weeks and weeks, it seems. It’s not a lot of fun for your wife anymore, and it’s about to get a little worse. You’re going to get parked near your wife, and the best thing you can do is keep out of the way—mostly.

This is the second stage of labor, and this is the part where the doctor needs his catcher’s mitt. But before that, your wife will be having the worst contractions. You’re going to hear phrases like “fully dilated” and “it’s crowning”. Yep, this means the baby......