"Experience at children’s outpatients"

Our daughter attended for a test at the x-ray/imaging department at the outpatients department at the Children’s Hospital, Glasgow. Staff were lovely and good with our baby daughter.

The only thing to note is that my husband felt they were belittling him in his role of a father. My husband had to take my daughter for the test as I was elsewhere in the hospital with our son. Staff asked him - where’s mum? It was not an isolated event, as there was another father in the department who was also asked the same question.

If I was to have attended with my daughter I wouldn’t have been asked - where’s dad? So we don’t feel this question was necessary or relevant, when my husband is perfectly capable of caring for our daughter. I also feel that this could cause a lot of upset to some fathers.