Fathers should be allowed to stay overnight in hospital after the birth of their baby, according to a senior government adviser on maternity services.
He said 86 per cent of fathers now attended the birth of their child and it was no longer acceptable for them to be ordered from the ward at 9pm.
Duncan Fisher, a member of the Maternity Matters advisory group at the NHS and chief executive of the Fatherhood Institute think-tank, told The Times that the move would be popular among mothers and fathers, and that the health service should respond.
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