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Fiction from American history in the mid-20th century seems to usually depict fathers waiting outside (e.g. in a hospital waiting room) while their children are being born. When and why did it become normal to have the father in the same room during birth?

by /u/Silas_Of_The_Lambs in /r/AskHistorians

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