“Are you ready to have a baby?” That is the question that I have repeatedly been asked for the past couple of months with growing frequency as the due date gets closer. My wife could go into labor any day now, so the baby is coming whether I am ready or not. Am I ready? Yes, and no.   Yes, because I am twenty-six years old. That is older than my parents were when they first had children.   Yes, because I have thirty-seven nieces and nephews, so I have spent a lot of time with