Dads are not afforded the same protections as mums when they take leave after their child is born.

Trigger warning: this article discusses baby loss.

My wife and I are expecting a baby in the next couple of weeks and for her, at least, the pregnancy hasn’t been fun.

First she had to deal with the morning sickness, then two months of pelvic pain, and now she’s so uncomfortable she can’t sleep.

Despite that, we’ve set up the nursery, deliberated names, and are taking bets on whether this time around I really will faint in the delivery room.

Juliette and her partner were this far along – the same number of weeks – when they lost their daughter.

The pregnancy had been uncomplicated. But at 36 weeks her husband, having informed his employer of his plan to take paternity leave, was laid off.

The stress, Juliette told me, was immense. Two weeks later her placenta stopped functioning and while they will never know for sure, she believes it was the fear and anxiety caused by the redundancy that led to the tragedy.

I cannot imagine how hard it must have been for them.

Under UK law any employed adult taking maternity leave, shared parental leave, or adoption leave receives 18 months protection from redundancy.

While flawed (research from Pregnant Then Screwed shows that an appalling

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