For fathers: remember when you first became a daddy?

[BigPoppa]

My ship let me go on leave when it was headed to Halifax for a couple weeks. She was a couple weeks overdue and we went in for a checkup. The doctor simply asked "You want to have a baby today?". They gave her the drugs to induce labor at 11am, and she was stll in labor at midnight.

Finally, my son was born at 3am on Oct 10th 1987. His first act on earth was to pee on the doctor. The nurse turns to me and asks if I want to cut the umbilical cord. My response was a look of horror and practically shouting the word "NO".

They hand Billy to me and I look at this dripping wet wrinkled little guy, and think "it's you and me, buddy. Whatever else happens, it's you and me".