Thirty -One Weeks, Five Days. 58 days to go…
So i have thrown my husband in the deep end…
At my midwife appointment the other day as we discussed the ‘birth plan’ the options of cutting the umbilical cord came up… And of course i checked the box which said that my wonderful husband would be cutting it…
I got home and mentioned this to my husband, along with the hundreds of other pieces of information i threw at him… As per normal he just said his usual ‘ah huh’ and i never even really second guessed it.
However as i had a conversation with my family yesterday i realised that maybe he might not want to cut the cord, that it may in fact ‘freak’ him out a little…
I am not sure if this is the case, i was hoping to ‘make’ him cut the cord no matter what… But then again – is that mean to ‘make him’? Is it that important who cuts the cord? And is it really that gross?
Honestly i dont think it is, gross that is, i cut the cord to my nephew earlier this year and it just really felt like cutting through a rope… So i am kind of interested to see if my husband feels the same as me, or if like some he is freaked out by the thought…
I guess it will have to be a wait and see moment, but in the meantime i think i will be prying some more information out of him, because the last thing i want for him is to faint or freak out because i pressured the poor soul into doing something he didnt want to do!
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
