A pair of first-time parents had to take matters into their own hands when their newbaby arrived very suddenly, at home in the bathroom.
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As a new NHS policy, which allows men to sleep overnight on maternity wards, is rolled out nationally, Dr Irene Gafson explains why the option must be there and the vital role a partner can play....
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Let’s begin with a wild generalisation: mums are better at supporting each other than dads. Put a group of mums in a room and within five minutes they’ll somehow know each other’s birth stories, names, numbers and emails.
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In January, Massachusetts passed a new law mandating that men in the state are entitled to eight weeks of unpaid paternity leave.
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Marc Carlson, a senior manager at Ernst & Young in Detroit, took two weeks of the company’s standard paid parental leave for dads when his daughter, Rebecca, was born last year. Then, when his wife, Diana, went back to work as a physician, Carlson declared himself the primary caregiver and took the maximum four additional weeks of paid leave.
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