Men: a pillar of strength. Or just a pillar.

I primaried for a beautiful home birth on Tuesday evening. Second baby, no stitches needed, baby quite mucousy at birth, but cleared nicely after nursing.

Went for the day one visit, and the babys lungs sounded really wet. Suctioned, and they still sounded wet. All else looked well, but I decided that I wanted a paediatrician's opinion. So I called the paed on call, and his secretary returned my call saying to be at the General in 1/2 an hour. Well, this family lived 15-20 minutes out of town, so we were going to have to boogey. So when I told the dad that it wasn't an emergency, but that the doctor could see us in 1/2 an hour so we needed to go now, he just stood there with this deer in the headlights look. I realized that he was paralyzed with fear. So I had to order him around: go to the car and get the carseat. I'll put the baby in, now you go help your wife get ready...

Turns out that the baby was fine... babys lungs did sound a bit wet but it was likely referred noise from the nasal congestion, and the paed didn't think it was bad enough to do a chest x-ray. At the two day visit, baby sounded perfect.