When a maternal health service is better at providing information to fathers, fathers are likely to be more engaged in pregnancy and childbirth. So found a study in Singapore involving …
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During December 2017, the Journal of Neonatal Nursing published a series of articles on the partnership of care between staff and parents on neonatal units. This discussion goes far beyond …
A user satisfaction survey following a co-parenting breastfeeding support intervention in Canada has shown that proactive engagement with fathers, in particular face-to-face discussion with health professionals, is the most popular …
In a survey of 1130 mothers of 0-2 year olds in UK, the need to engage fathers more came 2nd out of 27 proposals for improvements, just behind the need …
A small Swedish study, published as two articles and based on interviews with 15 pregnant women and 14 partners (fathers and co-mothers) has concluded that health professionals should be active …
An Australian study by Dr Holly Rominov (School of Psychology, Australian Catholic University) and colleagues interviewed fathers about their experience of maternity care, in order to determine what could be …
A qualitative study in Sweden asked 15 fathers about their experience of antenatal education and asked them for suggestions about how to improve the preparation for having a baby. Petra …
An evaluation in Canada of a digital breastfeeding tool that engages both mothers and fathers/partners has been found to be effective in improving parents’ self-confidence in breastfeeding, their attitude to …
A group of Norwegian researchers asked 8 mothers living in crisis shelters as a result of intimate partner violence (IPV) what they thought midwives should do for pregnant women who …
Fathers of pre-term infants in intensive care use social media sites to get information and seek support from other fathers. A US study, led by Dr Hyun Nam Kim at …