Shared Anxiety

A same-sex couple are just six weeks away from having their first child. Erin is pregnant through donor sperm. The couple has almost a twenty year age difference. They don't feel are typically treated differently. Although Erin is the one that is pregnant, Robin seems to be the one that is having the most anxiety. Dr. Park is thinking that the baby could possibly be a very big baby and a C-section may be the best option for them. Erin wants a vaginal birth, but Robin is worried about the risks of a vaginal birth, "I can live without the baby, but I can't live without Erin." She even has to be hospitalized because her anxiety becomes so bad, but she is released quickly. There are complications of having large babies vaginally and Dr. Park is worried about it. They decide to induce her two weeks before her due date. Now the roles seem to have reversed--Robin is calm and Erin is very nervous. She will be able to deliver vaginally, but Erin is running a fever so it becomes critical to get the baby out as soon as possible. Baby Liam is born! He was 8 lbs. 13 oz. so it was a little more than they were estimating. "It's really like everyone says, he plops out and you do just forget everything--you forget the last 38 weeks," says Erin. "He's our baby and I feel as biologically attached to him as if my genes were part of creating him. He's our son and I'm his mom. It feels like we made him and we did," says Robin.