"Birth partners treated differently"

I attended my anomaly scan yesterday at the RVI. I have attended two previous appointments whereby my husband was told he couldn’t come in with me. I was excited to find that he would be able to attend this scan due to rule changes, but then found out he couldn’t sit with me in the waiting area until I went in. He was then paged by staff to come up when I was called in and given a chair to sit on the other side of the room to me. I couldn’t see him or his reaction to my scan, I suffer from anxiety and I need him next to me! 

I strongly feel that birth partners should be treated the same as the mother, it’s a disgrace that they are excluded and not allowed to support their partners. Why are we being treated differently?  I feel that all emphasis is placed on coronavirus and nothing on kindness and care.

Every time I have been here I’ve felt cattle rather than an individual, I’m just glad private scans exist.

Things need to change.