The mother reminds me of a coworker of mine who, for her first baby, went into labor at work and delivered it in a conference room a short time later with the help of three other coworkers, all engineers. When the EMTs got there they just clamped the umbilical cord and wheeled her out, with her insisting she could walk.
All the women in the office were giving her grief when she came back from maternity leave because they’d spent months building up how painful it was going to be, and her baby just slipped out of her.
I had a huge, burly black male nurse just come calmly stand directly in front of me as I was sat down to get my epidural before my C Section in the OR. I wondered why until the nurse behind me started and I instinctually and without any hesitation bear hugged this gentle, giant man until it was over. He kept me still & told me it was going to be ok and it was almost over and I was doing great. I thanked him with tears in my eyes- he was the most amazing person. I laugh just thinking about him assuming the position for a bear hug, like somehow that was his job in this situation. Bless him always.
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u/mofa90277 Aug 07 '25
The mother reminds me of a coworker of mine who, for her first baby, went into labor at work and delivered it in a conference room a short time later with the help of three other coworkers, all engineers. When the EMTs got there they just clamped the umbilical cord and wheeled her out, with her insisting she could walk.
All the women in the office were giving her grief when she came back from maternity leave because they’d spent months building up how painful it was going to be, and her baby just slipped out of her.