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Family Included

Engaging fathers and families in maternal and newborn healthcare saves lives. It takes a village to raise a child. Follow all the latest research here.

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engaging fathers

Are you interested in a partnership to promote effective engagement with fathers and families?

In Our projectsTags WHO, ICM29th June 2017

In 2015 the World Health Organisation set a new agenda. It issued a recommendation that maternal health services should engage with fathers for the sake of the health of mother …

ICM Midwives Congress

Welcome to new followers from the Toronto 2017 Congress of the International Confederation of Midwives!

In Our projectsTags midwifery, ICM25th June 2017

Welcome to all those who joined the readership of Family Included at the Toronto Congress of the International Confederation of Midwives! The readership of Family Included includes influential and visionary …

Please engage our husbands!

“Please engage with our husbands directly!” A plea from pregnant women in Nigeria.

In Attending facilities, Informing families, Our projectsTags informing families, attending facilities, Nigeria14th May 2016

This is an account by Duncan Fisher of the Family Initiative, following the project team’s visit to an antenatal class at Bwari Hospital in Nigeria in March 2016. We were …

Charter

Family Included Charter

In Organising family inclusion, Our projectsTags informing families, birth partners, respectful care, attending facilities, bonding16th April 2016

Family inclusive maternal healthcare is when fathers and other family members are actively engaged by healthcare workers in a partnership of care for a woman during her pregnancy, during labour …

Nigeria newspaper

Family Included front page news in Nigeria

In Our projectsTags Nigeria26th March 2016

The Family Included project is reported on the front page of a national newspaper in Nigeria. The project immediately creates inspiration in this vast country.

Arabic fathers

How Arabic husbands of pregnant women see their role (Jordan)

In Our projectsTags gender, Jordan9th November 2015

A qualitative Arabic study of 19 husbands of pregnant women explored their thoughts and feelings. The study found a number of consistent themes: Childrearing is a joint responsibility. But there …

diet

EatWell Assist diet study, RAK, United Arab Emirates

In Infant diet, Our projectsTags infant diet, United Arab Emirates8th November 2015

Early next year (2016) Family Included will be commencing its first collaborative international research study. The research focuses on increasing awareness about a healthy diet in pregnancy and during the …

fathers

Fathers’ experiences of the birth of their children (UK)

In Our projectsTags informing families, gender, bonding, work8th October 2015

We asked Dr Anna Machin at the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group at the University of Oxford to comment on the research she published about the experiences of fathers …

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We have been reporting on all new research on family engagement in maternal and newborn healthcare since 2015, one or two items a week. Choose a topic below and subscribe here to weekly updates.

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  • Attending facilities (40)
  • Stillbirth (4)
  • Mental health (19)
  • Refugees (4)
  • Immunization (1)
  • Excluding families – examples (14)
  • Informing families (27)
  • Breastfeeding (28)
  • Violence prevention (3)
  • Great projects (8)
  • Infant diet (11)
  • WHO (6)
  • Maternal death (2)
  • Family planning (1)
  • Skin-to-skin (5)
  • Respectful maternal healthcare (8)
  • Neonatal care (17)
  • Birth partners (15)
  • Mother's diet (2)
  • Alcohol (2)
  • Early childhood development (3)
  • Smoking (1)
  • Pregnancy loss (1)
  • Evidence reviews (4)
  • Organising family inclusion (32)
  • Our projects (8)

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