The Government’s breastfeeding strategy needs to engage with fathers to increase the lowest breastfeeding rates in Europe

This is the only image of breastfeeding with a father present that I could find on Google.

The evidence is strong: engaging with fathers in the promotion of breastfeeding increases breastfeeding rates significantly – and in some trials, spectacularly.  The UK won’t get off the bottom of the European league table of . . . → Read More: The Government’s breastfeeding strategy needs to engage with fathers to increase the lowest breastfeeding rates in Europe

Monty Python’s version of medicalised birth

Monty Python’s classic sketch on hospital birth – The Miracle of Birth.  A holiday treat for Easter.

How contemporary this parody remains.  It even shows how the medicalised approach chucks out the family – “you are not involved!”

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US fathers call for paternity leave campaign

10 minutes before sitting down to write this week’s blog, Jeremy from the Fatherhood Institute sent me this link to the latest Dad Labs video on paternity leave.  I just have to pass it on!    I think Dad Labs is one of the best websites in the world on fatherhood – it is . . . → Read More: US fathers call for paternity leave campaign