Advice to New Fathers
‘Let dads spend night in ward after birth’ - Times Online
Fathers should be allowed to stay overnight in hospital after the birth of their baby, according to a senior government adviser on maternity services.
Why would you want to? You have just finished being ordered about for months and put up with being in hospital when you aren't ill. It was bad enough you had to stand around being bored with her nails digging into the back of your hand reminding her to bloody breath for hours, can't pregnant women remember anything? And then all that gungy stuff, and swearing silently to yourself you are never going near that end again. You need a break. Go to the pub, get bought beer and cigars, go home and take one last look at a house not engulfed in plastic toys and stinking of sick, go out again just because you can without negotiating a babysitter, sleep across the bed without worrying about a mewling bundle of poo beside you; you are starting a twenty year sentence, enjoy your last night of freedom.
