The day before our son was born, my husband and I went to Fred’s to pick up some things. While we were there I began feeling tightening and told him that I thought I was having contractions. Since we had already been to the doctor with braxton hicks contractions, we didn’t want to rush to the hospital.

We continued shopping and I kept having to stop and wait out these contractions. Toby saw a hair clipping set and put it in the buggy. He thought we could save a few dollars by cutting his own hair. Finally we finished shopping and headed to our house. I told him I was pretty sure these were real contractions and maybe we should drive to my mom’s house just in case. He was okay with that and started putting up the items we had purchased while I got the overnight bag and a few other things to take with us.

Feeling kind of jittery and excited all at the same time, I walked into the bathroom to see if he was ready to go. Wow, he had decided to try out those new clippers. Prior to the new clippers he had worn his hair kind of full, now he had a bozo cut. Full hair flowing from a big freshly mowed gap right down the middle of his head. I don’t even think he had put an attachment on the clippers. I didn’t know whether to laugh or be annoyed. I mean, I was trying to get out of the house and see if we were fixing to have this baby.

Grabbing the clippers, I started shaving his head. I kept telling him it looked all right. He had to wear a cap over a month due to the lovely hair cut. We may have saved a few dollars but he paid for it in other areas.

Oh, and yes that was 18 years ago we went to the hospital to have our baby–those were real contractions. I have to admit he was beautiful to me even though he had a charlie brown head, was all red and wrinkly from a difficult birth and a subsequent emergency c-section. He’s still a beautiful boy and his folks love him very much! Plus, he finally grew into that big head!