Having not visited the site for a few days and just read this thread from start to finish, have to stay it's been funny
To add my two pesos worth.
I wanted to be at the birth of my daughter, however my wife insisted that it was not the done thing in the phillippines.
I do believe she was generally embarrassed that i would want to be in there.
In the end i relented - my dad wasn't at any of my siblings births, so i just assumed it was like the UK 30 years ago
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