Last year, British newspapers including the Sun and the Independent hailed Hayden Cross as “Britain’s first pregnant man”. “There have been about six first pregnant men,” Barker notes wryly. In pregnancy, Barker mostly passed “as a fat bloke”. He was both in plain sight and, owing to the relative rarity of pregnant men, hidden. In fact, “Being out and about as a dad with a small baby attracted more attention than being a ‘pregnant man’ did!” he says.

Source: The Guardian March 22, 2018 06:00 UTC