The first connection.

Wow ! That was so nice to hear ! I can imagine whole scene in front of my eyes and I feel no exaggeration if tears rolled from your eyes! After all we are evolved animals with highest degree of emotions known to any animals and to become a proud father is ones life's dream ! My connection with my son was also like yours , when he was even less than one hour old! My wife had a normal delivery and the mother and child were immediately shifted to our room in the Hospital ! I took my son in my hands ! I still remember he was hardly fit into both my palms ! That tiny thing was gazing at me and having gazed for a moment when I whistled at him he had a smile on his face as if he was telling me OK dad that was nice ! Sometimes I wonder, having got my son turned to 21, how big the tiny child has grown up now!! I can never forget that moment of life! Thanks for the discussion! I am really touched by it!

I always felt connected to my sons in a way, but untill they day that my oldest son of age eight said I want to grow up to be just like you, it was at that moment I no longer felt lost as a single parent, I knew that I was on the right track and I never felt closer to my son then I did that day and we are still just as close as we ever were.

Hello, vorbro! My first connection was about 10-15 minutes after my son was born. We also ended up having a C-section. In fact we started feeling that something is going to happen today at around 4:30 am local time. I hoped it will end soon and medical staff tried their best that it be a normal delivery but at last moments he refused to come down and hence the C-section. It was already around 21 hours after we went to hospital. We haven’t slept the last night also but for 2,3 hours. So it was very exhausting. Anyways, I was the first one in my family who met my son. A nurse came to take me to the hall where new born babies were kept. When I entered the Hall he was crying vigorously and there were three nurses taking care of him and as I entered they stepped aside to let me see him. I greeted my Son! He suddenly calmed down and stopped crying and started seeing towards me. I welcomed him in this new world, told him that how much his parents waited to see him and how much we love him. I prayed for his long and a blissful life with tears of happiness in my eyes. He kept hushed while listening to me and was continuously staring at me as I was gently rubbing his cheeks. Then a nurse signaled me that she wanted to take him to his mother. The moment I stepped aside and the nurse took him, he started crying again:-) I can recall, how much emotional those moments were for me, feelings of accomplishment, fulfillment, responsibility, bliss were all surrounding me. He kept awake for a long time and I and my wife, as she joined later, kept talking about him all the time seeing him as he was seeing us:-)