Delivery room craft beer: commitment or time to seek help?

depends. those beers better be for mom!

congrats on your new little nugget!
pics please

 

I would have waddled out of bed and stolen it... then hit him with the iv pole.
But a close friend had my best interest at heart. First morning in the maternity ward, I got, not flowers, but ten fidy

9 months is a long time not to have a single brew!

 

I brought in one beer...Guinness, as requested by my wife. She wanted a traditional sip ("for strength") after delivery and to put a drop of foam on the baby's lips. Irish thing.

But during the very long labor (almost 3 days), I went with my father in law to Rock Bottom one day and Jacob Wirth's (cool German bar) the other day, for some good beers and food.

 

If the guy wants to crack a few brews to celebrate the birth of his child its his business. Your worrying about looking like a tool is making you look like a tool. Congrats, btw!

 

That's awesome hahaha. Congrats man

 

Being a dad is awesome. My little dude is turning 1 in a little over a month...best year of my life. Funny thing is that I have put away a bottle of 2013 IRIS that I hope to drink with him on his 21st birthday.

 

I'm not delivering anytime soon, but I'm having surgery to remove some cancer in a week and a half and hoping that my friends will bring me beer as soon as I wake up!!!

 

I wasn't into craft brew when my daughter was born, but I believe that I would have brought something special if I were. Every year though I buy my wife flowers and she gets them at the stroke of midnight into her birthday and for the first two years we shared a bottle of wine. But my wife would only drink a few sips since she's not really a wine drinker so for the last two years I cracked something special just for me.
She just informed me last week that she was pregnant again so I opened a bottle of 120 that I had been saving, to celebrate. Now I'm already thinking of what beer I want to have when the newest is born. Unless I find something else in the next 8'ish months I'm leaning towards a Unibroue 17 that was bottled on my daughters third birthday (2012), I think it will have a kind of symmetry to to it.

Edit: Oh and commitment totally. No help needed.

 

I have a beer pretty much every day. I love beer. But when my wife and I had my son (he's 7 mos. old now), beer was the furthest thing from my mind. I didn't even crack one for almost a week after he came home because I can't imagine having tried to experience those first few days under the influence.

Congrats on the little tyke and best wishes to you, but I have to say I don't understand the idea of bringing a cooler full of beer to your child's birth. The experience itself was more than enough for me without any "party favors", as it were. I won't say seek help, because I wouldn't dare judge you based on the very little information I know about you in a BA forum post, but I also don't think the idea of bringing a cooler full of beer to your child's birth has anything to do with "commitment" to craft beer.

For what it's worth, when I did finally crack my first beer 5 days later, it was a Bruery White Chocolate. The occasion was definitely worth celebrating, but I wanted to have all my wits about me for a bit before I imbibed.

Seriously though, congratulations--as I'm sure you've realized by now, your life will never be the same.

 

Depends on how it all goes I suppose, how you can end up looking. Personally this would have never occurred to me, plus once he got here it was way too hectic very quickly, beer was not a priority at that time.

 

Really well said. I just want to elaborate on a couple points.

OP, first of all, congratulations. You've just entered the most important, meaningful, rewarding phase of your life. And while I can appreciate your desire to want to celebrate this event, you also need to understand one very important thing: as of the moment of your child's birth (and really, several months before that), it's not about you anymore. Your job now is simply to be there, 100%, for your wife and child. That's your only real commitment anymore. So if you can get by on virtually no sleep and consume a few relatively strong alcoholic beverages without compromising one bit your ability to do that job, more power to you. I know I couldn't.

Beyond all that though, hopefully without getting too preachy/judgy here, I have to wonder why the birth of your first child in itself isn't enough of a celebratory, revelatory moment without needing/wanting to throw a whole bunch of beer (some of it really strong) into the mix. Maybe you just didn't fully anticipate what you were in for; that's understandable, as no new parent really can. Hopefully by now, a couple days in on this new adventure, you're grasping what a truly life-altering event this is, and you're realizing there will be plenty of time, later, to enjoy most of those beers in your cooler.

 

Agree with whoever says leave it for another time. Definitely should be enjoying this time with your wife and new little one, not toasting beers with your friends/family, but hey, that's just me, a responsible adult who doesn't drink at the hospital...

 

This is clearly a question that would only be asked by a first-time father, assuming you are sharing parenting responsibilities even remotely equally with the mother. If you already had one, you would know that you will be way too tired/busy in the next week (not to mention the next year) to drink much at all. If you do it, drink very little. Seriously. You'll need to be in top form to be able to cope with what you are about to experience and to get off to a good start as a father. Take care and good luck!

 

I always felt bad about bringing them too but after having relatives bring me them during the first two I threw that out with the third and brought growlers!

Cheers OP hope mom and baby are well!!

 

My wife called me when i was up on the mountain cutting firewood to tell me her water broke. She said take your time im making supper... when i got home she poured me a cold beer and made me eat. So we packed clothes and some brews and two hours later we had our second daughter...wow that was 19 yrs ago. You will be fine, you already thought of others and wanted to celebrate your first kid with them. Nothing wrong with being proud of your passion for beer and being a dad. Cheers!!

 

Gonna be hard to enjoy that beer with the smell of blood and afterbirth in the room. Seriously..its time to grow up and be a responsible adult. Wait until you get home and the baby is asleep in its crib at least.

 

I swaddled my boy and a growler for side-by-side photos on the changing table (I'll post one if I can find it) and he fell asleep. Well, you don't mess with a sleeping newborn, so there the two slept and everyone got to talking when a nurse walked in to check on him. "Ohhhh...umm...yeah...they didn't tell me you had twins..." PARENT FAIL

 

My first was born very prematurely. When he came from NICU a couple of months later he was wearing an apnea and heart monitor 24/7. I realized I had to be able to think clearly and respond at any hour of the day or night. I basically quit drinking. Then we had the second one. I pretty much drank very little for about 8 years. I didn't really feel like I was missing anything. One is now a young man in college and the other is in high school. I drink beer with the oldest one now and he's never had BMC, at least here at the house

 

After all's said and done, beer drinking aside, how'd it go??? Haha cheers man!

 

Before it became common for men to be participant-observers at the birthing of their children, it wasn't uncommon for a man to pass that time in a local bar. Seems to me like you're reconciling old traditions with current cultural circumstances. Well done!

And congratulations, of course.