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Subscribe to RSSA misfiring fetal monitor started alarming with a rhythmic beat, prompting new dad Charles McDaniel to bust out a rap song to distract his wife, LaQuita, from her contractions.
Some new dads can get nervous helping a woman in labor, but not Charles McDaniel.
The expectant father had been through the drill with four previous babies, so when the fetal monitor started acting up during his wife’s delivery of their fifth child on Dec. 16, it didn’t faze him.
McDaniel, an Air Force staff sergeant based in Aviano, Italy, noticed that the monitor, which had slipped out of place, was pulsing in a rhythmic beat. While waiting for medical staff to fix the problem, the father-to-be decided to distract his wife, LaQuita, from her contractions with a little freestyle rap.
“I just, you know, started singing,” said McDaniel, 32, who hails from Houston.
More precisely, he launched into a riff on contractions, cervical dilation and other delivery-related issues, all with the aim of welcoming son Kingston Josiah into the world.
“We were just trying to get him to come down,” said McDaniel, who captured the entertainment on video.
As any woman who has been in labor might imagine, LaQuita, also 32, was not amused.
“At first she was really irritated,” McDaniel said. “She knocked the camera out of my hand.”
But later, with Kingston safely delivered through C-section, even LaQuita thought the video could be a viral hit. Friends urged the couple to put it on YouTube, where it has been viewed more than 500 times since it was posted Saturday.
Military officials at the 31st Medical Group in Aviano, about 50 miles north of Venice, Italy, couldn’t immediately say what was going on with the errant monitor.
But McDaniel, who sometimes raps back home under the names Sir Charles or Daddy Charles, says it was one way to lighten the mood in the delivery room.
“We were just laughing and crazy cracking jokes,” he said.
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500 views and it made the news? My how standards have fallen.
Agreed
Labor is NEVER fun. Just ask any woman who has given birth! As my former GYN would say, men don't have a vagina, they don't understand!
Robin-2931182,
Men may not have vaginas, but we are extremely supportive of women who do.
Hahahaha
Well played my friend.
That'st not even rap...I don't even know what to say...
We'll have to "monitor" this story ... I know, I better "rap" this story up ... hahaha, I made a fetal monitor joke. Thank you very much.
I think that sounds like rap with a little military twang to it...I think this man is incredibly awesome there with his wife and FIFTH child. Wish I had been lucky enough to have a guy like that while I was in labor. Wonderful funny video.
Well I thought it was sweet..Gee people lighten up!!
Whoa, Katherine! Lighten up-he was just trying to de-emphasize that irritating monitor. I'd have thrown it across the room.
Five children? Five at age 32? Five at age 32 on a staff sergeant's pay?
Although I am pleased the baby arrived safely, and mother and child are fine, and I certainly don't have anything against this family in particular, we do not need five-children families anymore. We aren't running the family individual farms of yore. The earth is already overpopulated. Let's focus on getting our collective house in better order and take care of those already here rather than bringing excessive new numbers into being.
DogDancer...really!!!??? Not really the time or place nor is it of any relevance to the story...So far, in America, we still have the freedom to make our own choices, on this particular subject anyway...You give the government the authority to put a cap on family size all you do is then give them a foot in the door to little by little take your American rights away until one day you wake up and you no longer have no choices to make in your life as they will control everything right down to when and how many times a day you can fart.
They call that rap ? I call it cr*p! Thanks for wasting my time -- today beep beep
Yup E-5 pay, 5 children, with the favor of God on their lives. beep beep!