Recently, our hospital was the first in the city to launch a pro-life midwifery and umbilical cord cutting service. The fathers-to-be can walk into the delivery room and accompany their wives to witness the birth of their babies. This initiative is welcomed by many mothers, who feel that accompanying the delivery can reduce maternal pressure and enhance the relationship between husband and wife. However, there are some opposing voices that the husband witnessing the birth of the baby scene, although warm, bloody scenes may leave a “hidden danger” in the husband’s psyche. Husbands accompanying their wives in childbirth in the end is good? For this reason, the reporter interviewed our obstetricians and psychologists. The 26-year-old mother, Ms. Liu, had her uterus open to more than two fingers at 5:30 a.m. on Feb. 6 in our hospital’s pro-life labor room. At the same time, the labor pains intensified, and the interval between each labor pain was getting shorter and shorter. “Honey, it hurts! When will we have anesthesia?” “Ms. Liu’s lover, Mr. Fang, born in ’87, encountered such a dilemma for the first time, but he held his wife’s hand tightly and coaxed her patiently, “Hold on a little longer, it will be fine soon.” And carefully wipe the sweat for his wife, feed her honey water, and keep massaging her thighs. At 7:30, Ms. Liu’s uterus finally opened to three fingers. The medical staff immediately administered epidural anesthesia and used a balloon to assist her delivery. One hour later, Ms. Liu’s uterus was fully opened. Mr. Fang also put on a surgical gown and entered the delivery room after strict sterilization measures. At 10:20, accompanied by her husband, Ms. Liu gave birth to a 7.4 pound baby boy. Mr. Fang stroked his wife’s loose hair in front of her forehead and kissed her forehead repeatedly. He witnessed the pain of his wife’s delivery, and although he pursed his lips and tried to suppress it, tears were faintly visible. It was time to cut the umbilical cord. After receiving the surgical scissors from the nurse, Mr. Fang’s forehead was seeping with sweat and his hands were trembling as he repeatedly asked the medical staff, “Will the baby hurt? Will the mother be in pain?” After getting several negative answers, he went forward and finally moved his right thumb and index finger gently to finish “cutting the ribbon” for his son’s life. The moment the umbilical cord was cut, Mr. Fang’s tears flowed, and his voice trembled as he said he wanted to give more love to his wife and be a good father in the future, and hoped that more fathers-to-be would enter the maternity ward to see how hard life is to come. Ms. Liu also said that the kind of severe pain of opening the uterus, a man can not experience, but having a husband around to cheer, increased their strength. There was no expected blood and shouting, only warmth flowing in the ward at this time. As the first hospital in the city to open a family-friendly midwifery and umbilical cord cutting services, the director of our obstetrics department, Li Aoshang, said that since the opening of the “family-friendly delivery room” in January this year, it has been very popular, and basically all women are willing to choose their husbands to accompany them to the birth, and 51 babies have been born under the joint witness of their parents, and 23 of them were cut by their fathers. The umbilical cord was cut by the fathers themselves. In our obstetrics ward, Ms. Huang, who also received a husband to accompany the birth, told reporters that childbirth is a particularly strong psychological and physiological experience, the husband can join to enhance the emotions of the couple and family, but also a humane service to the mother. Li Aoshang said that domestic and foreign studies have shown that mothers with husbands accompanying them have shorter waiting and delivery times, less use of painkillers and oxytocics, fewer cesarean sections, higher breastfeeding rates and better health for their babies; another important indicator is that these mothers with husbands accompanying them are in a better mood and have a significantly lower rate of postpartum depression. According to Liu Jun, the director of our child psychology department, affectionate birth accompaniment and umbilical cord cutting have positive implications for building a positive family love circulation system. The attention, support and care that a wife receives from her husband during labor can help her overcome the anxiety, nervousness and fear of childbirth, and this helps the new mother to bring a positive emotion of pleasure, peace and recognition to her later breastfeeding period, injecting a more intimate experience into the parent-child relationship. At the same time, the ritual of the father cutting the umbilical cord for the child will enable the father to be more active and faster in the fatherhood experience, accelerating the psychological transition from “husband” to “father”, and thus faster in joining the growing connection with the child. This will enable fathers to be more motivated, active, and quicker to engage in the fatherhood experience. The benefits of birth accompaniment are many, but expectant mothers and fathers still have many doubts about it. For example, is it safe for the father-to-be to cut the umbilical cord? Will they bring germs into the operating room? Will it cast a psychological shadow on the fathers-to-be after witnessing the bloody images of their wives’ delivery? Li Aoshang said that the sterilization procedure before the father-to-be enters the operating room is as strict as that of the surgeon, and all steps are carried out under the guidance of professional nursing staff, which will not bring any chance of harm or infection to the newborn. Li Aoshen also said that fathers who rashly accompany the birth may have various conditions, “For example, one father-to-be did not know how to comfort the mother, kept shouting ‘go, you can do it’, and was driven out of the delivery room; there are also young fathers who only focus on taking pictures of the newborn child, making the mother vulnerable and in tears on the spot. Therefore, fathers-to-be must receive prenatal knowledge training and practice in hospitals before accompanying the birth, psychological, knowledge and technical are excellent, in order to truly escort the mother and baby.” Liu Jun also reminded that the affectionate accompaniment of labor and cutting the umbilical cord should vary from person to person, if the father-to-be is reluctant, the mother-to-be should not force, if the father-to-be is forced to accept these, but in the process of maternity is not conducive.