I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.
There are times where you can't do it yourself and the system takes over, or it's appropriate to do things differently. But I think driving your son and your wife away from hospital was really important to me.
Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.
My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.
I hate hospitals. Even if it's a joyful occasion when a friend gave birth. It's like, 'Oh, look at the beautiful baby.... and all the disease on the walls...'
I now need to take a very aggressive approach to having a baby.
Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe.
All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.
It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.
I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that.