Parents Present During Invasive Procedures – Take it to your Clinical Practice Council. When working for a family practice physician, I learned the significance of maternal or fraternal presence with an invasive procedure.  This physician was emphatic that the father of the infant be present during a circumcision.  He would allow the mother to stay in the waiting room but the father must be with his newborn son during the circumcision. We told the father what we will do and what he, as the father, would do to comfort the infant.   It became the father’s job to talk to his child and use the pacifier during the procedure.  Therefore, the…