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More on Keeping Dads Out of the Delivery Room

Posted on08. Jun, 2010 by Brian Reid.

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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 [...]

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One in 10 New Dads Suffers Depression, JAMA Says

Posted on18. May, 2010 by Brian Reid.

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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.

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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 [...]

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