
The guiding principle for how to support both a birthing mother and a new mother: support her hormones.
Create a calm, private environment to support oxytocin release—dim lights, quiet, a closed door, and ambient music. Stay home as long as possible and post a quiet-sign for staff.
Discover how postpartum challenges emerge when couples restructure life around the baby's needs, focusing on loss of freedom, unpredictability, and irregular sleep.
Start postpartum thriving by opening a conversation about your parenting priorities and expectations, covering feeding, sleep, housework, and help, before crises arise.
Plan to have someone feed you postpartum by freezing nutritious meals during pregnancy. Invite a supportive family member or friend to help and organize a meal shower.
Plan for postpartum with your wife, define expectations and values, apply five keys for postpartum thriving, baby moon, companionship, and dad and baby play; use magic words to ease tension.
You’re going to be a dad! Congratulations!
Now what? You want to be helpful and involved, but you aren’t sure how.
It’s easier than you think! This course breaks it down for you. From pregnancy, through birth and postpartum, you’ll learn what a woman wants and needs from her partner:
Specifically, you’ll learn: