I would have been happy to stay in a private room for longer too, I've been around young children a lot since I have a large family, but being responsible for a

I would have been happy to stay in a private room for longer too, I've been around young children a lot since I have a large family, but being responsible for a newborn was a scary prospect to get used to. Regarding food my overriding memory of being the father in Finland was that we'd get food delivered to the room and each plate was labeled. Half the meals had the mother's full-name written on them. The other half just said "man". I'm sure they took my name at some point, as I was registered as the parent in the country-wide population index, but as far as the hospital was concerned I was just "man". (In Finnish the word for man & husband are the same, so perhaps I was "husband" rather than "man"!)