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Standing up long enough to cut the cord is pretty special. Trust your auto pilot, its amazing how quickly it kicks in.

And please don't consider to bring your camera into the delivery room, instead just experience this one--the photos will be terrible under the fluorescent lights. Hospitals are designed to be terrible for photography maybe for this reason alone.

Maybe I can ask everyone to be still for 15 seconds.. I'll probably put my camera on a tripod and just leave it recording.

Maybe ask for the lady's approval before you post them? Not sure I need to see any of that, for my own self. The kids look like aliens for the first couple hours anyway. Its really weird.

OH! I remember I got a photograph on day 1 or 2 that was absolutely adorable, but I didn't have anything else in the frame to give a sense of how small his hands were, so it didn't really work. If he was holding a pen cap or something it would have been 1000x better. FYI.

Good tip. Probably put a something in there.