To have Dad at the baby’s birth might be the norm these days, but it hasn’t always been this way.

Up until I became an O&G registrar in the late 1960s, the ‘woman’s husband’ — for that was what he was called back then — was always banned from the labour ward.

Yet today, partners of all descriptions are encouraged to be present at the births, COVID-19 notwithstanding. This is a wonderful change and I was at the forefront of it.

So, when did this change begin?