[quote name='io'] So all told it was about 23 hours of labor - all with no pain medication I might add... and a 10 pound baby. So let your wife know it could have been much worse

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So while it may seem your gaming time is over for a while, it will come back with a vengeance as she gets older. You may have to get more into those kids games you always put down though...
On our last one (now 8 months old) I had to use all my strength for about 2 hours helping support my wife's leg (a nurse had the other) so she could push with all her might. Yeah, the pushing stage itself was 2 hours. Hell, it was one of the most exhausting things
I ever did - I can only imagine what it was like for her! That's what happens when two people with big heads have babies I guess

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23 hours of labor for your first baby and 10 pounds with out any pain meds!! Man, your wife can take it!! Did she get a c-section? That would be tuff. Our first kid, my wife started to have contractions at 10:00 pm. She did not tell me because she thought they where false again, and we where due at the hospital the next day to be induced. It turned out to be real labor and we still had our apointment and our son was born at 3:17 pm the next day. I did not have to hold my wifes legs at all.
Wombat can do what Cheapy and I do. Hold the kid in the lap while playing. My newest one (3 months old) she seems to be into it. She likes to watch me play Burnout Paradise. I just got to watch what I play in front of her. I let my son walk onto me when Gears came out and I was chainsawing a guy. He had nightmares for weeks, but he can handle it now. He was only four at the time.
I hear you on your last one io, on my last one a few weeks I had to hold my wifes legs up. I was not too happy about that considering the other hospital was staffed and I did not have to do it. My wife started to have contractions on Tuesday around noon, we went in that night and they said she was in labor, but she was not dilating. So they sent us home and my wife had non-stop contractions all week. I made her walk a mile on Sunday and that made her dilate to the certain point. We where at the hospital again on Sunday night, and we had our daughter on Monday at 2:47 pm.
[quote name='XTommyDonX']Whipped? His baby was
a single week old at the time... He was kind enough to even consider doing a show, let alone at least an hour and 45 minutes.[/QUOTE]
Yes, any guy who lets his wife freely yell at them and tell them what to do is whipped. It does not matter if the baby is a week old or not, clearly Mrs. Wombat disrespected her husband by yelling at him in front of his friends. Its one thing if the baby was screaming in the background and he said I gotta go take care of her. But no, his wife just yelled at him for spending time with friends and talking about E3 and it was to long for her timetable. E3 is the biggest gaming event of the year in America, so logically there is a lot of stuff to cover and it should take longer to cover.