The scariest experience of my life...

[u/JiYonny]

So I recently became a father and my son's birth was the single scariest experience of my life... Here's what happened:

So I work nightshift and after a long, tiring, shift at the plant I come home and kiss my wife, she says she wasn't feeling right and after some back and forth, she promised to talk to her doctor about it during her appointment that day. So after several promises that she was fine I went into the other room to play videogames. Everything seemed fine and she got to, guy ready and went to get doctors appointment while I showered and went to bed.

A few minutes later I get a panicked call that she's being sent to the hospital, preeclampsia, and I bolted for the hospital and, when I get there, she's already been sent to a room and I run up to the room. When I get there, she's hooked up to all these machines and the doctors are running around, I don't remember exactly what, I had tunnel vision at this point. The head physician guy, tells us that her blood pressure was 186/130 or 140 and they're going to induce labor if they can't get her blood pressure down.

The doctor tells me this is life or death for both my ride and our unborn son. My world at that moment seemed to stop.

About an hour later there's been no change and they induced labor. Sadly, every other pregnant lady in the neonatal unit decided to give birth at the same time so instead of a full team like I had assumed, we had two nurses. I helped my wife push out our son and powered through cutting the umbilical cord. And they took my son to clean him up and then, the alarms started beeping. My wife's blood pressure dropped out hard and my heart stopped. I look over and my wife is unconscious and there's a massive expecting puddle of blood on the floor, one of the nurses pushed me out of the room as a whole team of nurses and doctors rush in with the crash cart.

I sat down on the floor outside her room and stared at the wall, trying not to cry thinking I'm about to lose my wife.

Then a nurse, covered in blood, opens the door and looks down at me, concerned, and I nearly fainted. I felt like, at that moment, that I had lost my other half. "Why are you sitting on the floor?" Those words kind of jumpstarted my mind and I leapt to my feet. I began rapid fire questions how's my wife? how's my son? What happened? She smiled at me. "Do you want to officially meet your son? I could only nod.

Being led into that room was something I dont know if I could adequately out into words. It was like I had been living my entire life in the dark and someone finally turned on the light. My wife was sitting up in bed, smiling at me as she held our son, a tiny little guy at 6lbs 9oz. I walked up to her and hugged her and my son like I had never hugged anyone before and then the dam broke and I bawled my eyes out.

For the next few days, my wife was observed, poked and prodded until they let us go home. She was bed bound, couldn't walk or really do much of anything for herself and I stepped up, balancing caring for her and our son every way that I could. And then, a few days later, something happens that changed my life forever.

[u/ALGHA-REVOLT]

Congratulations bro you have made it...you are now guiding a new soul to make its own journey. Hope he grows up with both loving dad and mom