Medical professionals. What's the best reaction you've seen from a dad during the birth of his

child? I've been told that my dad's response to my entering this world was, it's a person.

I was born in the 80s and the ultrasound technology wasn't that great. What my parents didn't know

was that instead of one baby, there were two. Our hearts were beating at the same time, and they could never really tell the gender,

so they thought it was just one baby.

So I came out.

Then my mum says, Doc, I still feel pain.

And he looks and says, I see another head.

Apparently my father said, what the frick?

Whose baby is that?

And then my sister popped out. They were obviously

flawed. When I was born, my dad pulled out a Sharpie and drew a star at the bottom of my foot

to make sure they didn't lose me. Fun fact, if you do that to a premature baby, it can leave a

permanent tattoo, because the skin isn't done yet. The more you know.

So if I wrote Maiden Shiner on a preemie baby's foot, I was a C-section baby. A couple of years

ago, the topic came up with my parents while drinking. I mentioned that this sounds kind of gross.

My father looks me right in the eye and says,

Have you ever seen Alien? It was just like that. I've seriously threatened my wife with

watching the Alien trilogy while she was pregnant. I almost passed out at the first C-section.

We named our elder's daughter Ripley as her ultrasound photo made it look like she would emerge

teeth and claws flailing.

When I was born, my father, who's a gynecologist himself, came from watching me do my big entrance,

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