From the extraordinary Inside Iraq Blog maintained by the McClatchy Baghdad Bureau…

A couple of weeks ago it was time for my wife to deliver a baby girl, in that day me, my wife, my mother and my wife’s mother headed to the hospital in karada area at about 7:30 am, its usually takes between 30 – 40 minutes with the normal traffic but in that day something happened!!!! A car bomb exploded almost half way to the hospital and the only way which led to the hospital was blocked for many hours, I could see my wife started getting very worried and I was too but I tried not to show her about my concerns, the traffic was not moving at all for a couple of hours and I was worried that my wife might start having delivery pain but thank god we made it after 4 hours and it was the longest hours in my life, after all I had a beautiful baby daughter that made me forget the long tiring day.