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When my two brothers and I were born, my father stayed well away from the delivery room. In fact, he wasn't even at the hospital. My mother had to telephone him each time to say "it's a son" or daughter.
My father's view was that giving birth was "women's business" - and until the 1970s, it was.See the full content of this document
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Your Baby Backup
Men, if they were around at all, were boiling water downstairs or treading a worry-circle in the carpet while their partners, usually attended by other women, were giving birth upstairs.
These days, most fathers expect to be present at the birth of their children, and mothers want them there. Most pre...See the full content of this document
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