Rejected petition Allow your birthing partner with you from the start of labour not at 4cm dilated

Allow birthing partners to be there for the mother of the child to be for support.

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Women are going in to hospital to give birth alone some women have severe anxiety and need extra support from there birthing partners but this is happening to late at the moment fathers are missing the birth of there children

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Decisions about who can attend scans and births are a matter for the NHS, not the UK Government or House of Commons.

On 5 June, the NHS’s suspension of hospital visiting was lifted. This means that visiting is now subject to local discretion by trusts and other NHS bodies. You should check with your maternity team and sonography unit for their policy on visitors attending births.

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Date submitted 16 October 2020
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