The Perinatal Dad is a report by the Fatherhood Institute’s Head of Training, Jeszemma Howl, drawing on research she undertook – thanks to a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship – with the aim of exploring and examining the very best offer to families, that engages the father in the perinatal period and supports women to breastfeed for as they want to.
Babies do better when planned by both parents
Husbands who understand the risk of pregnancy complications will support their wife’s use of appropriate services
Mother-to-child transmission of HIV can be prevented when mothers stick to their medication supported by their husbands or partners.