CounterIntuition

What seems like a step forward in Iran is the result of some very unusual reasoning.

Tehran's Sarem hospital has become the first in the nation to allow fathers-to-be in the delivery room. According to a report in The Guardian, Dr. Sarem believes fathers are a calming influence. Also, husbands seeing wives through labor may reduce the womens' fears about the reaction to the re-shaping of their body after birth, with its increased psychological pressure encouraging caesarian sections.

Maybe it will be the ever-happy experience of western delivery rooms we all remember so fondly. But it is not yet the endgame and science marches on to find other "solutions" to the pain and worry of childbirth.

** Were the good old days of men's part in delivery really bad old days when cigars, alcohol and a bit of exercise by occasionally pacing were all standard procedure? **