🧠 Wellbeing · From birth
🧔 Finding your place as a dad, cliché-free
Caregiving competence comes from practice, not gender stereotypes.
Habits of a dad who's all in
1. What to prepare
Take ownership of feeding support, changing, settling and appointments rather than waiting to be assigned tasks.
2. What to check
Agree roles with the other caregivers and revise them as needs change. Include adoptive, same-sex and non-birth parents without assuming identical legal status.
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When in doubt, contact your doctor or midwife. For a life-threatening emergency, call 112 from a mobile phone; 10177 for an ambulance.