Emotional moment dad watches birth of son on Zoom after social distancing rules stopped him from being at his wife’s bedside

A new father revealed he watched the birth of his first baby on Zoom after hospitals banned spouses from being in delivery rooms due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

Marty Gandelman, 34, from New Jersey, was sitting on a sofa watching on his laptop screen as his wife, Stephanie, also 34, who fell pregnant on her fourth round of IVF, delivered their son, Jake, now three weeks, at Mount Sinai Hospital, Manhattan, New York.

Speaking to Metro, Stephanie, who was induced on March 27, said: 'He was more upset than I was to be honest because Jake is our first child together and he was sad that he could not be there to see his son born.'