Sleepless nights can wait as Berra focuses on Macedonia SWAPPING dirty nappies for a clean sheet would generally be regarded as a favourable exchange, but Christophe Berra is nonetheless impatient for a return to the delights of fatherhood. The Wolves defender experienced a tumultuous build-up to his 22nd appearance for Scotland on Saturday, his participation in doubt until his partner Amy gave birth to the couple's first child on Wednesday. After snatching just a few precious hours with daughter Savannah, the proud dad joined up with Craig Levein's squad on Thursday evening and then delivered a solid display at the heart of the back four in the 0-0 draw against Serbia at Hampden. Berra must wait until the completion of the opening World Cup Group A double-header against Macedonia tomorrow night before he can rejoin mother and child, but the 27-year-old has no doubts it is worth sacrificing some of their first days as a family. "If Amy hadn't had the baby on Wednesday, if it was even a day later, I probably wouldn't have made it for Scotland," said Berra. I made sure it was okay with her. If she had needed me, I would have stayed there. But she wanted me to come up and play for my country which I'm very proud to do. It was good to get a clean sheet to top it off. It's been a great week but it's been hectic. My head was in a funny place at the start of the week. My fiancee had a 48-hour labour. Since I joined the squad, I've been on the phone almost every hour to make sure she is okay. My parents and her dad are looking after her. I've been sitting in the hotel room, wondering how they are getting on. I did change a couple of nappies and feed her a couple of times in the first few hours, but I didn't spend that much time with her. I'm looking forward to getting back down the road and seeing her again. I'm looking forward to the sleepless nights ahead. I trained with Wolves on Thursday morning, then got Amy and the baby out of hospital. Then I got up to the Scotland hotel at tea-time on Thursday and trained with the lads on Friday. I wanted to come and play for Scotland and Amy understood that. Berra's central defensive partner, Andy Webster, who received a silver medal before kick-off in recognition of reaching the 25-cap milestone in the friendly win over Australia the previous month, believes the performance of a back four which included debutant left-back Paul Dixon was encouraging. "The feeling in the dressing room is frustration that we didn't get the goal our play deserved," said the Hearts player. I think we were happy with the way we defended right until the end when Allan McGregor had to make a great save. Paul Dixon did exceptionally well. He's come in and looked very comfortable in his first game for Scotland. Defenders take confidence from a clean sheet. Sometimes you have to soak up a wee bit of pressure, but we defended well as a team and I thought we looked dangerous going forward as well. When you come up against quality sides like them, then there will be periods, whether it's a couple of minutes, five minutes or ten minutes, when they're going to have the ball and put us under pressure. But we dealt with that and limited them to very little. I think we can equal or better that result when we go to Belgrade. Macedonia will be tough for us because you don't get easy games at this level. It's another big one and we're all looking forward to it.