The 45 Percent Reality
When I qualified as a midwife back in 1993, I was only the second man in Leicestershire to do it. Mostly, that meant I spent my first few months trying to look …
Straight-talking, practical pieces for men who are about to be in that room — and the people who love them.
When I qualified as a midwife back in 1993, I was only the second man in Leicestershire to do it. Mostly, that meant I spent my first few months trying to look …
Eleven years ago, I wrote a book called Men, Love & Birth. It was the book I wished I'd had in my own pocket the first time I stood beside a woman in labour and…
More than four in ten births in this country are now caesarean births. In the latest figures, caesarean has overtaken unassisted vaginal birth — it's now the si…
Your words in the birth room are doing one of two jobs: supporting her, or getting in her way. There is no third option.…
Ask the man in the room how he's doing. Go on — ask him. Chances are nobody has.…