article_snippet.sent: the midwives knew what no nurse ever seems prepared in public to admit: men in a maternity ward are a flat-footed menace. '
article_snippet.sent: the midwives knew what no nurse ever seems prepared in public to admit: men in a maternity ward are a flat-footed menace,' says Quentin Letts, who says he made it through just a week of he own paternity leave .
article_snippet.sent: Worse, these women were keen to discuss the complete biological aspects of the delivery.
article_snippet.sent: The expression ‘give us all the gory details’ rings still in my ear as my wife’s girlfriends descended on my wife’s with presents of Babygros and ‘moisturiser for your stretch marks’. '
article_snippet.sent: Descriptions of shrieking agony in the delivery room unfolded, complete with Dante-esque accounts of pushing and dilation and heads appearing.
article_snippet.sent: Worst of all, they wanted to know about ‘tearing’.