🧠 Wellbeing · From birth to 3 months
🫂 Dad skin-to-skin and your complementary role to mum
Any caregiver can bond through safe, responsive care.
Your complementary role
1. What to prepare
For skin-to-skin, remain awake, support baby upright with face visible and airway clear, and monitor comfort.
2. What to check
Transfer baby to a flat clear cot before becoming sleepy. Do not imply a father’s role is biologically fixed or merely secondary to another parent.
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When in doubt, contact your doctor or midwife. For a life-threatening emergency, call 112 or 999.
