The doctor was there, and she's sensing trauma.

She's telling Robin at a certain point,

"You got to push, honey, you got to push."

So I turn to Robin and I go, "Come on!

Hank Azaria: (laughs)

Bryan: "Push that thing!"

Bryan: "Goddamn it, push that thing!

"Let's go, let's go!"

Hank: (laughs)

Bryan: And she goes, "Don't talk!"

Hank: (laughs)

Hank: You got the old "Shut up,

"He can talk, but you can't?"

Bryan: Yeah, yeah.

(light upbeat music)

Hank: I am not a children kind of person.

I don't really like kids.

I don't gravitate towards them.

They make me nervous when I'm around them..

I didn't particularly like myself as a child.

I feel about kids the way I feel about most people,

which is most of them are annoying.

Children are no exception.

They're just like annoying short people.

My dad, he was a really great dancer.

He was a good businessman.

He was great at tennis.

He didn't love being a daddy.

It just wasn't his thing.

Look, my dad's philosophy is child rearing is the woman's province.

Male: Right, but you don't think that that's generational?

Hank: Do you think that it's easier or harder to raise a kid nowadays

than when you raised a kid?

Al Azaria: Medically, it has to be easier now.

Hank: Medically it's easier?

I want to start shooting this film about my friends who are daddies

because I have a dilemma about

whether I want to be a dad or not and having kids.

The closest thing I have to a child is Annie.

Annie's low maintenance even for a dog, always has been.

My lovely girlfriend Katie and I have been together for a bunch of years.

The question was less for us "Do we get married?" than "Do we have a kid?"

We, in the last hour, made the decision to put poor Annie down.

As I'm sitting there crying, dealing with that,

our lovely camera operator throws up,

and I ask, "Hey, are you pregnant?"

Katie: (laughs)

Hank: And she is pregnant.

So, this is from the man who is making a documentary film ...

Katie: (laughs)

Hank: ... about how I can't understand why anybody wants to be a father.

It's Preg and Nant.

Katie: (laughs)

Hank: (laughs)

I love you, Kate.

Katie: (whispers) I love you too.

Hank: I can't believe we're shooting this.

So the documentary changed.

I started this journey of asking everyone I could see,

my friends, my poker buddies, experts, "Why did you want to become a father?"

"What's so great about it?"

"How did you handle it?"

"How did it change your life?"

Male: I promise you it will all be OK.

Hank: And the questions don't end, so you keep asking.

See, I have a fear that I won't bond somehow.

Did you experience any of that?

Mike Nichols: We had the baby, and of course, I had this instant transformation.

It was love at first sight

Mike Myers: Having a kid will be like falling in love for the first time

when you're 12 but everyday.

Hank: Hmm.

Mike: Which it absolutely has been.

Richard Kind: There were times when I literally will say,

"I'm leaving town because my children are acting too much like me."

Hank: You know, if you really love them, you just disappear for a year.

Richard: (laughs)

Phil Rosenthal: You can say there are times when you're, like ...

Hank: Right.

Phil: I could kill her.

Hank: Right.

Phil: But you wouldn't.

Hank: That's good advice.

Don't kill them.

Kate's getting ready to get on the old table here.

You like these stirrups, right?

These are the good kind?

Katie: There's no good stirrup.

Hank: Oh.

(ultrasound noises)

Katie: No.

Hank: Oh no way!

Katie: Oh my God! (laughs)

Doctor: Oh, it's real.

Katie: (laughs)

Hank: Everything looks fantastic.

This was really fun and actually helpful.

Willie Garson: I'll talk to you again when he is in prison.

Hank: Are you a daddy, by any chance?

Male: I am.

Hank: You are?

I'll have my first kid soon.

Male: How nice!

Hank: Any advice for me about being a father at all?

Male: Everything you're worried about now will not be what you worry about then.

Hank: See, everybody gives me these vague poetic answers,

like everything changes.

Male: That's not a bad thing.

Kevin Bacon: The phases will drive you up a [inaudible] wall.

You'll be, like, "I cannot take the ..." whatever it is, the colicky phase.

Hank: Right.

Kevin: The diaper phase.

And they keep going.

They pass, and nobody ever tells you that in the books.

This too shall pass.

Hank: How's it going?

Is he kicking at all?

Katie: [unintelligible] a little kick [unintelligible].

Hank: Come on.

Give Daddy a kick.

Ooh, is that, is that one?

Katie: Yeah (laughs).

Hank: I just felt that.

(beeping noise)

So we have a problem.

The baby has to come out 10 weeks early.

Kate is really sick.

(tender music)

He was born at 2-1/2 pounds.

At 30 weeks, he should have been closer to 3.

That's how they knew we had definite "get him out" situation going on

because once they measured him in there with the ultrasound

and saw that he was 2-1/2, it meant he wasn't getting enough nutrition anymore.

(beeping sound)

Female: All these wires and tubes.

Hank: No one knows whether the lupus created the pre-eclampsia

or the pre-eclampsia made the lupus flare up,

but they both happened. (beeping sound)

What are you doing in there?

(beeping sound)

(beeping sound)

Eleven days old today.

He's up to 2 pounds, 14 ounces.

He's born at 2.9, went down 2.5

He's back up 2.14.

He gains an ounce a day.

Oh, you're a coconut, that's what you are.

(tender music)

Jim Gaffigan: It's really just this gigantic ball of fear and love and ...

Hank: (laughs)

Jim: And anxiety and exhaustion.

It's the one job that I don't want to [inaudible] up.

Nurse: There you go.

Just make sure his head is a little bit higher than his ...

Hank: Is this good?

Nurse: Mm-hmm.

Hank: Oh my God, I never held you before.

Katie: (laughs)

Hank: Oh my God.

Hank: Until you have a family, you don't ...

Bryan: You don't ..

Bryan: You don't have empathy.

Hank: No.

Hank: Hey Hal, take a look at Daddy.

Take a look at Daddy.

Hey!

Katie: (laughs)

Female: (laughs)

Hank: Hi!

(laughs)

Bryan: But the thing that's happened to me too is that

has there been a sense of fear that has come into your life?

Hal: Oh, you mean worry for them?

Bryan: Yeah.

Hal: Oh absolutely.

Bryan: That we've never felt before as men.

And until you have a wife and child,

and the idea of putting them into that car seat and, you know,

it's like, "Geez!"

Hank: Yeah.

Bryan: It's one of those things that's a tradeoff.

You get the joy and the love of this being that you brought in

and a tremendous responsibility,

and you also get the worry.

(beeping sound)

(kissing sound)

Hank: How's it going, buddy?

(tender music)

Essentially, what happened in that first month after the baby was born,

was C-sectioned out at 30 weeks, 10 weeks early,

baby was in the NICU, ended up being in the neonatal intensive care unit

for seven weeks.

And in that first especially 2, 3 weeks,

Katie was in a bad way.

I essentially had to be the one to go to the NICU all the time

to be with the baby at the incubator.

Even if your baby is all right, which, thank God, he was,

all around you are other babies not all right.

Fisticuffs?

Come on!

Come on!

I'm standing here!

Come on!

Katie: (laughs)

Hal: Come on!

Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

As a father of 11 weeks,

I'm able to answer one question that guys couldn't answer for me.

You just want them to be OK.

You're so grateful when the kid is healthy,

you're, like, fine.

Up late, diapers, screaming in the house, whatever,

you'll take that deal in a heartbeat.

(tender music)

You know how that chick in "The Blair Witch Project," she keeps shooting?

Male: Mm-hmm.

Hank: And they're, like, "Would you turn off the [inaudible] camera?"

She's, like, (cries) "You don't understand.

"It makes me less afraid if I can look through."

And then later, the guy is, like, "She is right."

When you look through the lens, it's like you're more ...

It's more objectified.

That's kind of like how I feel about the whole pregnancy.

Male: (laughs)

Hank: It's [inaudible] terrifying half the time,

but if I'm pointing a camera at it, it's like,

"All right, this is a shoot, and it's interesting, and ..."

Male: Eventually, someone will come and take the baby away.

Hank: (laughs) Exactly.

And then we'll wrap.

Male: (laughs)

Hank: And ...

Male: When the baby comes out, it's over.

Hank: (laughs) We'll be done!

Male: (laughs)

Hank: The baby will go into post.

Male: (laughs)