...to wonder when fathers started to be present at their child's birth?

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For no other reason than I'm curious.

I was born in the very early eighties and in common with most of my friends born in the late 70s/early 80s, my father was present at the birth.

Obviously when my parents were born in the 1950s my grandfathers didn't go anywhere near.

So does anyone know it became the norm for fathers to be at the birth?

I was born in 78 and my dad was there

I was born 78 and my dad had to write to hospital for permission to attend birth. He had to leave when forceps came out too. He did not need to write for my sis born in 79. So that fairly accurately dates it for Leeds at least.

Sorry missed a page, missing that's such a lovely thing your mum did

We lost a baby at the end of September at 20 weeks, he weighed 280g and was 11 inchs long, the mw brought him to us in a tiny Moses basket and the student mw put a little knitted hat on him, took photos and footprints

We also received a little box with a teddy in it and a condolence letter from the couple who donate the boxes. They lost a baby boy and donate the boxes in his name.

I made Jacobs clothes myself, allthough you can order them on line or the hospital and funeral directors have knitted clothes that are donated.

I'm planning on making some little clothes like I did for Jacob and donating them to the maternity hospitals in our area

As confuddled said what your mum did and others too mean so much when you've lost a baby xx