In the US, some doctors are afraid of being sued, some aren’t.
When my wife was pregnant with our third child, during one of her obgyn visits, I complained that they wouldn’t let me watch during the emergency c-section for number two. He not only told me I could watch, he said I could bring a camera.
The C-section for the third kid was scheduled, right? I could see how a doctor would be less inclined to have a nervous husband watching during an emergency as opposed to a scheduled procedure.
Yes, the third was scheduled, second was an emergency (prospect cord).
I’m not sure if the doctor even noticed me for the second. It was the nurses who kept bugging me to sit down.
They brought a stool over, and I said I didn’t need it. They kept bugging me to sit down, but I was better off standing. I’m a bit too big for most furniture, and the stool they brought over was tiny.
To their credit, they stopped bugging me about it before my wife had to tell them to piss off.
Edit: It wasn’t about me watching what they were doing. They were all expecting me to pass out. The only way I would have passed out is if I sat on that stool and then tried to stand up again.
They brought a stool over…
That makes sense, they’d have to supply it for a C-section but not a vaginal birth since all that pushing means the stool typically just shows up.