His top five tips for dads in the delivery room were as follows:
- "Be in the room — you're not Don Draper."
- "Be judicious with the photographs you take, because you know, a photo of your daughter crowning hanging on the refrigerator isn't going to help anyone."
- "Your wife will pretty much never think it's funny or charming if you tip your imaginary top hat and say, 'At your cervix.' Don't do that."
- "You really want to realise that you're pretty much the least important thing in the room. It's going to go your wife, the baby, your doctor, the nurse, a doula, if you have one . . . the air."
- "When your wife asks if everything's OK down there, just respond in the affirmative. Don't yell, 'Better than ever!'"