Freddy Flintoff's dodgy decision!
Is it just me or does everyone agree that the birth of a baby is something everyone should have the pleasure of witnessing?
There’s a lot of discussion in England this week, because CRICKETING hero Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff will miss the birth of his second child to play for England in India.
Freddie planned to fly home next month and be with wife Rachael and daughter Holly, but Michael Vaughan's knee injury means Freddie is now skipper.
It was a tough decision for the dad-to-be but Freddie has made up his mind. He’s playing cricket.
I would be devastated if John missed the birth of any of our babies.
It is a moment you can never get back, and that makes it more important than anything else.
On the other hand….my dad didn’t attend the births of any of his children…I remember the day my little brother was born… My dad was a truckie, and he had the rest of us in the truck with him…
Just on dusk we rumbled up to the Margaret River hospital….pulled to a stop and dad said wait here….he jumped down out of the truck…and I remember seeing him walk into the lights of the hospital…
Not long after, he climbed back into the truck, said “Mum had a boy” drove us home and grilled us some sausages.
That was 1973…so it was on the cusp of the new generation, when dad’s were suddenly an essential ingredient in the labour ward.
I once asked him if he regretted not seeing any of us born and I don’t know if it was bravado or a lifetime of conditioning, but he was adamant….there were no regrets, he had no desire to be that close to the action.
But Freddy Flintoff…what if something goes wrong at the birth? What if you wife really needs you?
What will your baby think when he finds out his daddy was there for his sister's birth but was too busy working to be there for his?
You can win for England again, but miss your baby's birth and it's gone for ever.
There’s a lot of discussion in England this week, because CRICKETING hero Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff will miss the birth of his second child to play for England in India.
Freddie planned to fly home next month and be with wife Rachael and daughter Holly, but Michael Vaughan's knee injury means Freddie is now skipper.
It was a tough decision for the dad-to-be but Freddie has made up his mind. He’s playing cricket.
I would be devastated if John missed the birth of any of our babies.
It is a moment you can never get back, and that makes it more important than anything else.
On the other hand….my dad didn’t attend the births of any of his children…I remember the day my little brother was born… My dad was a truckie, and he had the rest of us in the truck with him…
Just on dusk we rumbled up to the Margaret River hospital….pulled to a stop and dad said wait here….he jumped down out of the truck…and I remember seeing him walk into the lights of the hospital…
Not long after, he climbed back into the truck, said “Mum had a boy” drove us home and grilled us some sausages.
That was 1973…so it was on the cusp of the new generation, when dad’s were suddenly an essential ingredient in the labour ward.
I once asked him if he regretted not seeing any of us born and I don’t know if it was bravado or a lifetime of conditioning, but he was adamant….there were no regrets, he had no desire to be that close to the action.
But Freddy Flintoff…what if something goes wrong at the birth? What if you wife really needs you?
What will your baby think when he finds out his daddy was there for his sister's birth but was too busy working to be there for his?
You can win for England again, but miss your baby's birth and it's gone for ever.
1 Comments:
Obviously Freddie thinks you need to lie back and think of England at conception and birth!!!
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