As promised....

How Daddy stole the show! That's right, my husband, Mr. Not Afraid of Anything---loves anything gross and medical related, passed out after Liam was born. Everything was going great, Joe was down by the doctor watching everything, even telling me that he was almost out and was saying, "just a few more pushes, you're doing great!" Liam was born and in Dr. Saraf's hands and I look up at Joe in amazement and the next thing I know he's falling back like a domino. It happened so fast. At this point I thought there was something wrong with the baby. He made it through everything and then as soon as the baby is born he passes out? I was scared...thinking for sure something was terribly wrong with Liam and my husband was dying! I remember Dr. Saraf yelling, "What the....!!" as he went down. He took down a nurse with him and broke some stuff in the room. He woke right up though and was totally alert but the nurses refused to let him get up, almost sitting on him to keep him down. He kept saying he was fine and just wanted to see his baby but they had to follow "husband passes out during delivery" hospital protocol.

When a baby is born at St. John's a lullaby is played all throughout the hospital. Not for Liam! Instead it was, "Medics needed in 512, medics needed in 512!!" Everyone in the waiting room was freaking out not knowing what was going on. They made Joe go to the ER and told him it could take 2 hours! We hadn't even named Liam at this point and Joe hadn't even held him, let alone see him cleaned up. Before they took him away on the stretcher the nurses made sure to get some pictures saying, "this will be something you never forget!"

We were the talk of the hospital, everyone who saw Joe mentioned it and those not working were disappointed they missed out on the excitement. Luckily Joe took it with stride and wasn't embarrassed....he jokes about it too. Apparently he just saw too much after the baby was born. Needless to say, it will be a day never forgotten---can't wait to tell Mr. Liam about it someday! And so thankful the nurses stopped to take pictures!