Getting prepared to support your partner in labour is an important stage in your journey to parenthood. It’s essential that both parents are supported during this major life event. We want you have a positive experience of meeting your baby and connecting as a family. Supporting your partner during labour is a tall order! You are often there with many…
I’m a proud dad of two boys, Cillian and Ethan aged five and eight. Finding ways to build really strong bonds and great relationships with them as they grow has been so important to me. I’ve been able to use educational support and learning to be cornerstones to create and strengthen these bonds. Being a parent is not easy, as…
World Mental Health Day 2021 - My Journey With Mental Health and Why It's So Important To Talk
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Mental health is a subject that has always been close to my heart. Having suffered with my own mental health for a number of years, and watching the people I love experience their own difficulties, it is a topic I will always try to talk about. Today is World Mental Health Day. I want to use this day to share…
What is Baby Buddy 2.0 There’s an old saying that goes: “You can get there quickly alone, and further together.. Well there is a new app that provides support for New Dads. In 2011, Best Beginnings conceived the idea for an app that supports parents on their journey through pregnancy until their child’s first birthday. Ten years on, Baby Buddy…
In 2020, 5224 people took their own lives and of that figure 3925 were men. At the time of publishing these were the latest official ONS figures available. Suicide is the second biggest killer of men under fifty. Roughly 75 men in the UK take their own lives every week. That’s 75 fathers, brothers, sons, uncles, nephews, and friends. This…
Aviva have scrapped paternity leave! They realised it was an outdated and unfair system. So they changed it! Anthony Fitzpatrick, Head of colleague Experience and Employment Policy at Aviva tells us about the change to the entitlement. And Rob Simpson, a dad who works at Aviva, shares his story of taking all the time he needed to adjust to being…
The truth about fertility treatment for women is that you never think it will happen to you. At 19 I met the man I was going to marry, and ultimately go on a journey that would mean we would become parents – hopefully. Jeremy had always insisted we waited until after we got married to start a family. So, the…
Our lives were ticking along nicely, and we were super lucky with all we had achieved together. But nothing could of prepared us for the journey to come and fertility treatment for men. My wife and I had been living the dream through our 20’s! With travelling, growing our careers, buying our first home and having the dream wedding. The…
