Rejected petition Partners allowed for entirety of labour/birth in ALL hospitals.

I want to change the restrictions on partners being allowed in early labour/birth and after birth in maternity wards and hospitals around the country, to allow your chosen birth partner to be with you from the very start of labour to the very moment you are allowed to go home and also for scans and appointments.

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Right now the rules state that women do not have to labour alone but partners are only allowed to be with the mother when she is 4cm dilated or more. They are not allowed in for the start of an induction. They are not allowed in for the pre operation preparation for a Caesarean section.

They are not allowed to come onto the ward with mum and baby after birth, they must leave shortly after birth, irrelevant of mothers emotional, mental or physical needs. This includes visits back to the hospital in the coming days should she need to stay in longer.
Not having the partner there from the START puts her at risk of being alone in a horrendous situation.
Many stories are coming to light that partners ARE missing births as adequate time is not being given to allow the partner to be there on time. If partners were allowed from the start, it simply wouldn’t happen.
We mothers NEED OUR PARTNERS WITH US. With the correct PPE there is no reason why this isn’t possible now.

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue, or if the Petitions Committee has considered one in the last year.

Another petition about allowing birthing partners to be present at scans, the start of labour, birth and after the birth is already collecting signatures: https://petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/200113

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Date submitted 17 September 2020
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