Make room for daddy
Subtitle: the journey from waiting room to birthing room
By: Judith Walzer Leavitt.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9780807832554
Subjects: Childbirth -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Fatherhood -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Labor, Obstetric -- history -- United States; Father-Child Relations -- United States; Fathers -- psychology -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; Infant, Newborn -- United States; Parturition -- United States
Description: "Using fathers' first-hand accounts from letters, journals, and personal interviews along with hospital records and medical literature, Judith Walzer Leavitt offers a new perspective on the changing role of expectant fathers from the 1940s to the 1980s."[book cover].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : men matter; title: Alone among strangers : the medicalization of childbirth; title: Keeping vigil : fathers in waiting rooms; title: The best backrubber : fathers move into labor rooms; title: He wants to know : prenatal education for fathers; title: Peaceful and confident : mothers and fathers in labor rooms; title: Side by side : men move into delivery rooms; title: We did it together in delivery and birthing rooms; title: Epilogue : expectant fathers' expectations.