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More on Keeping Dads Out of the Delivery Room
Posted on08. Jun, 2010 by Brian Reid.
I have been baffled by the recent backlash against dads in the delivery, which is one of those things that seems to make such perfect sense to me that I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the counter-argument.
First, the New York Times ran a piece suggesting that men are sufficiently grossed out by [...]
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One in 10 New Dads Suffers Depression, JAMA Says
Posted on18. May, 2010 by Brian Reid.
The big news in fatherhood today is a new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association that estimates that about one in 10 new fathers suffers from depression in the first year after the birth of a child. For comparison’s sake, about 4.8 percent of men are depressed during a given year. So [...]
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More on Why Dads Need to be in the Delivery Room
Posted on22. Mar, 2010 by Brian Reid.
Of all of the strange controversies having to do with dads, none perplexes me quite as much as the argument that dads shouldn’t be in the delivery room. This getting a pseudo-scientific cast from a French doc who says that having dad around stresses mom out, a proposition that I find highly dubious. I took [...]