Dr Tom Yorke: How Dads Can Support Breastfeeding
byFor World Breastfeeding week, gp and new dad Tom Yorke gives his top breastfeeding tips for dads…
Fathers
A letter to my second child
byDear Second Child, I’m sorry. I’m so very sorry for a number of things… I’m sorry that your older sister has spent the first…
The Labour Party: A father’s guide to surviving labour
byWith our second baby due any day now, Jeremy Corbyn, Mr Cameron’s tax affairs or Brexit are of little interest to me. Don’t worry,…
Shared Parental Leave: why don’t more dads stay at home?
byWhisper it, but looking after your kids isn’t that difficult. More dads need to know this. Certainly that’s been my experience over the past couple…
Fathers can suffer from postnatal depression too
byWhen we think about men suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), we automatically think of those that have fought in a war, or are associated with…
When is it time to rein in the ‘daddy talk’?
byMy daughter is two-and-a-half but the way time has flown, it feels like she was born just a couple of weeks ago. As a parent,…
A father’s guide to baby naming
byWhen you’re expecting a second child (as my wife and I are at the moment), gone are the whimsical “I wonder what colour hair…
How fathers can make (or break) breastfeeding
byFathers can make a huge difference to a new mother’s happiness in the first few weeks and can help them to breastfeed more successfully, says health…
First-time fatherhood: A moving account
byA beautiful and moving animated memoir by The Telegraph cartoonist, BOB, whose experience of fatherhood was unlike anything he had expected.
An A-Z of new fatherhood
byYoung(ish) dad Sam Parker Bowles used to be irritated by unpuffed cushions on the sofa. No amount of antenatal classes could prepare him for life with a child. Now,…