Your adventure yesterday certainly put this podcast of yours in perspective. Your initial question was "How can men help when their wives are pregnant?" It looks like you've discovered the best answer ever: deliver the baby yourself!! Your podcast "Pregnancy from the Male Perspective" was posted about 9 months ago. Who knew? Anyway, my heart was pounding as I read your description. Now take a week off already.
EDIT 1 It wasn't yesterday, but I once midwifed a cow. We had to use a winch to pull the 80-pound calf out. It stood up right away. Very cute.
I've never felt more useful in my life. Really, all I did was "catch" but still, it was an important thing I was catching. I've never, ever had anything remotely this intense occur in my life. All I could think was, "please don't die, please don't die" when he was coming out. I realize that women have been delivering babies since the dawn of man, but still I couldn't help but think I could potentially screw it up if I didn't act appropriately. What if the chord is wrapped around his neck, what if he's stuck or breached? Luckily, he was none of those things and it was a perfect delivery. We arrived home yesterday and I went to the bathroom where I hurriedly had shut our dogs away just after Atticus arrived. There was blood and gunk dried and splattered all over the door knob. I found my shoe, sans laces on the counter where I had left it. There was a pair of bloody scissors on the ground, under the couch that I used to cut his umbilical chord. Crazy. Atticus is very cute, but unlike your calve, he's yet to stand up. -Given his entry in to the world, it wouldn't surprise me though. This kid is miraculous!!
Your podcast "Pregnancy from the Male Perspective" was posted about 9 months ago. Who knew?
Too perfect!