No offence mate, but this forum seems to be quite well populated with **ssy whipped males..
So I'm a **ssy whipped male for choosing to be present at my kids birth?

Believe me, I wasn't whipped into that delivery room. I wanted to be there, and it's still, to this day, the greatest experience I've had in life.

Your living in the past. It's quite common these days for dads to be there at the birth. The old cliche of waiting in the pub waiting to light the cigars is a bit old hat.

Being the first one to hold your child is an amazing thrill, a shame to miss out on that because of a bit of cliched chauvinism.