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Numerous studies suggest that the father's presence is beneficial. In , one UK study, "Women's Expectations and Experiences of Childbirth", found that labouring women do best if they feel "in control" and that a supportive birth partner can help them in that aim.

A report claimed that when labour partners including fathers "know a lot about pain control", women have shorter labours and are less likely to have epidurals. However, other reports have shown that a stressed partner can be counterproductive: stress is contagious and when it spreads to the mother, it can slow down the labour.

This is where the French obstetrician Michel Odent has stepped in with his recent warnings against fathers. Odent has said: "There is little good to come for either sex from having a man at the birth of a child.

For her, his presence is a hindrance, and a significant factor in why labours are longer, more painful and more likely to result in intervention than ever. Odent has estimated that demands for men to attend deliveries started around He has also written about "the benefit to our sex lives" when men don't attend — and he did not witness the births of his own three children. He used to encourage [labouring] women to stand up with their husband standing beside them and put their hands around the husband's neck when they were bearing down — that makes uterine contractions very efficient.

So in the early days before his recantation he was quite an advocate. Stoppard takes the view that there are three people present at a birth: the mother, the father and the baby. The baby is half the father's genes.

The baby has a right to have two parents present. If the father is present at the birth they stand a much better chance of bonding strongly with babies later on.

There is good research to show that if dads hold newborns in the first half hour, they can bond as strongly as the mother.

She is particularly scathing about men like Ramsay who avoid the birth to preserve their "great sex life". What is your sex life worth? Seeing your baby born is one of the most moving things that will ever happen to you in your life. If you want to put sex above that then I think you're not giving any indication that you'll be a good father.

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A woman whose daughter gave birth at the same Parisian clinic, La Muette, just before Bruni, told Reuters she had bumped into the first lady, barefoot and wearing a nightdress, in the corridor before the birth.