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Should Male Partners Be Banned From the Birthing Suite?
It may not have been popular in the 1950s, but it's pretty much expected that male partners attend the birth of their child these days. Any man who doesn't want to would typically be seen as some sort of squeamish dinosaur. But leading UK obstetrician Michel Odent says we might be doing the wrong thing by expecting men to be the key support pers...
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Does Daddy Have To Be There For The Big Push?
When my friend told me her sister-in-law didn’t want her husband at the birth of their first child, I thought she was kidding. You do realise he’s seen it all before, right? But according to a LilSugar survey this week, only sixty-three percent of women are adament that dad be there for the big moment. I’m not sure if the other thirty-seve...
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Kindergartner Gets Best Birthday Present EVER
I pride myself on being a pretty good gift giver - at least when it comes to my kid. But I can't top Casey Hurles. The Army specialist came home from Iraq, then let his family wrap him in a box and cart him to son Gabriel's primary school. While Gabriel chowed down on cupcakes with his classmates, Casey sat quietly in the box, waiting. When h...
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Dads? At Home? Inconceivable!
You know Father’s Day is not far away (in the Northern Hemisphere at least) when the traditional media begins focusing on the fact that one half of the parenting team actually, well, does stuff. This year stay-at-home dads seem to be in the news quite a bit, and while there have been some truly ground-breaking stories on this rising trend —...
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When Dad Doesn’t Step Up
Hi Babble Readers! I’m Karen Bridson, author of Stunned: The New Generation of Women Having Babies, Getting Angry and Creating a Mothers’ Movement. I’m going to be guest blogging this week for Strollerderby. Perhaps the sexiest words I’ve ever heard my husband say are, “Don’t bother Mummy.” I was curled up with a book in my bed...
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They Say: Dads More Devoted To Kids Who Resemble Them
A new study of Senegalese families has found that fathers invest more of their time and resources in children who look and act like themselves. This is the first study to find a direct link between paternal resemblance and paternal investment, but the study’s author says she has similar, as yet unpublished, findings about Western families. And...
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Birth Film For Traumatised Fathers
Until now, all the important birth films — The Business of Being Born, Orgasmic Birth, Baby Mama — have focused on women’s experiences during pregnancy and labour. But a Missouri filmmaker has turned her lens on fathers and their babies, who, as this eight-minute clip shows, are having traumatic experiences of their own during birth. Wh...
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They Say: Men Gain Pregnancy Weight Too
We've blocked out the face of this male actor, but I can tell you he's a dad. And that beer belly he's sporting is not unusual - according to a new poll, the average male puts on about 6kg while his partner is pregnant, with around 5cm added to their waist. Popular reasons men cited for the weight gain were that there were more snacks in the hou...
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Judge Pardons Father Who Hired Prostitute For Son
A 42-year-old father has been let off the hook for attempting to give his son a morally reprehensible birthday gift. Having decided it was time for his 14-year-old son to lose his virginity, the British resident drove the boy into the red-light district and told him to pick a prostitute. Fortunately, the son accidentally picked an undercover cop...
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