The most surprising thing about a baby being born for a lot of people is they lift up the baby. This is what goes wrong, so many times.
You don't feel what everyone's told you you're gonna feel for nine months.
This is a magical out of body feeling the tears stream down your face. Everything suddenly make sense.
Panic not, for some of us it does not make sense.There's just numbness and panic and all of those feelings come, months maybe even years later.
I think that's part of where we go wrong as we tell people what they should expect to feel rather than getting people to be prepared to roll with whatever they feel.
For it was a total, right I went into work mode, I went and picked up some newborn nappies.
I did this, that and the other. The only intense moment was when I went home alone for the first night. This is something you never hear men speaking about.I don't know if women are even aware of this one weird night a man has.
He's just witnessed the birth of his child. His whole world's completely changed he'll either be feelings these emotions or numb like I was.
You go home and you've got one last night at home, alone. I just ran around the house doing weird stuff.
I started to learn French in the conservatory at three a.m.
I went a bit mental and it wasn't until I turned up at the hospital the next day holding a car seat which had never been used I realised Christ I am on the cusp of adulthood here.Then I farted and laughed at it so I was fine.
There's no mum, there's no child. It's just you alone with all those thoughts and emotions鈥
As Russell explains, there's no weirder experience for a dad to have than the very first night after their partner has given birth.
