When announcing a new birth, why do people always say that baby, mom, and dad are all doing fine? Dad is doing fine? Why wouldn't he be fine? Did he faint and knock himself out on the edge of the bed? Was his hand pulverized during an extremely bad contraction? Did he stupidly try to give advice to his wife and get stabbed with a wayward scalpel?
I mean what do people think he was doing in there other than standing around uselessly, panicking that he wasn't doing more?
