I heard Esther Rantzen say she was going to be this. Personally I'm appalled at the idea of anyone's mother being there during the most painful and undignified hours of her life.
I didn't even have my husband present at any of my births. My mother wouldn't have been much use as apparently her own babies came from the stork, sex and birth were never ever mentioned.
My daughters all had their partners there, as has been the norm for many years and I don't know any of their generation who choose to have her mum present.
What do grannies think of their daughters or granddaughters having their mums in at the birth?
