Why guys should stay out of the delivery room during child birth

Most women would probably dread the thought of giving birth without their partner by their side.

But they might actually be better off without them. 

British scientists have found that the presence of a loved one can intensify a woman’s pain.

In fact they didn’t find a woman whose pain was actually reduced by their husband or boyfriend in any of the cases they studied.

The electrical activity in their brain was monitored, and women were asked to rate the intensity of the pulse out of 11.  

The scientists then repeated the experiment with the man standing in another room.

They found that the pain the women experienced was never reduced by the presence of her partner – and in many cases it actually increased.  

Previous research had found that women do not use painkillers as much after labour if their partner was with them.

The authors of the new work say those studies were not precise enough.