I'm not going to argue that's a great experience. But I think it's important to remember a lot of very dysfunctional families come through the birthing center.

I'm not going to argue that's a great experience. But I think it's important to remember a lot of very dysfunctional families come through the birthing center. Questions you as the husband are perfectly capable of answering, another husband may simply lie. Yes, she and I agreed not to use any pain medication, for example. It's also a good time to catch abused, controlled, or manipulated women at an extremely vulnerable point in their lives. This doesn't mean men are never abused- but childbirth doesn't exactly seem like the place to discover it. I've been through the experience. I think it's important to remember that, as the father, you are very much party- but you are not the patient.