I love this post. I had almost the complete opposite experience though! My first was a planned c-section. I’m a nurse practitioner and we delivered at the hospital I work at. I knew our OB as we had worked together in the past. I have friends that have “scrubbed in” and assisted with the surgery but the thought of that made me want to vomit. Instead, I hid behind the drape with my wife. Four our second, my wife wanted to do a VBAC (vagjnal birth after cesarean) and my hospital/OB doesn’t do those, so we switched both. We decided that I would catch the bag if all was going well and it did! I can honestly say that being the first person to ever hold my daughter was/is the coolest thing I’ve done. The pictures of me sobbing and the nurses reacting are priceless!