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Whose Bright Idea Was It to Let Husbands in the Delivery Room?

Way back, at the dawn of time, motherhood was women’s work. Women not only delivered the babies; they also delivered the babies.

Somewhere around the 16th century, men got it into their little pea brains that they could do a better job, and the man-midwife was born.

It all went downhill from there.