Make room for daddy : the journey from waiting room to birthing room /

Make room for daddy : the journey from waiting room to birthing room /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Leavitt, Judith Walzer.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 385 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Childbirth -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Fatherhood -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Labor, Obstetric -- history. Parturition. Infant, Newborn. History, 20th Century. Fathers -- psychology. Father-Child Relations. Childbirth. Fatherhood. United States. United States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11281959

Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:	9780807887837 0807887838 9781469605616 1469605619 9780807832554 0807832553
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-365) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Using fathers' first-hand accounts from letters, journals, and personal interviews, along with hospital records and medical literature, this book offers a new perspective on the changing role of expectant fathers from the 1940s to the 1980s. It shows how, as men moved first from the hospital waiting room to the labour room in the 1960s, and then on to the delivery and birthing rooms in the 1970s and 1980s, they became progressively more involved in the birth experience and their influence over events expanded.
Other form:	Print version: Leavitt, Judith Walzer. Make room for daddy. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009 9780807832554

Table of Contents:

Introduction : men matter
Alone among strangers : the medicalization of childbirth
Keeping vigil : fathers in waiting rooms
The best backrubber : fathers move into labor rooms
He wants to know : prenatal education for fathers
Peaceful and confident : mothers and fathers in labor rooms
Side by side : men move into delivery rooms
We did it : together in delivery and birthing rooms
Epilogue : expectant fathers' expectations.