BACKGROUND Given the limited research into men's experiences of being present at childbirth this study explored the experiences of fathers who found childbirth traumatic. The aim of the research was to investigate how men coped with these experiences; the impact on their lives; and their views on what may have helped to reduce distress. METHODS Participants were recruited via websites relatin...

OBJECTIVE Fathers of low-birth weight offspring are more likely to have type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease in later life. We investigated whether paternal insulin resistance and cardiovascular risk factors were evident at the time that fetal growth-restricted offspring were born. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We carried out a case-control study of men who fathered pregnancies affected b...

The prevailing gender ideologies in the Nordic countries generally support equal division of work and family life between men women, including sharing parental leave. Regardless, as exceptional case region, Denmark currently has no father’s quota, this despite strong impact such policy effectively proven to have on equality take-up While a quota intended for father is instead implemented via co...

We infer local relations of influence between networked entities from data on outcomes and assess the value of temporally richer data by characterizing the speed of learning when knowing the set of entities who take a particular action, versus when knowing the order that the entities take an action. We propose a parametric model of influence which captures directed pairwise interactions, formul...

BACKGROUND The course of depression from pregnancy to 1 year post partum and risk factors among mothers and fathers are not known. AIMS (1) To report the longitudinal patterns of depression from the third trimester of pregnancy to 1 year after childbirth; (2) to determine the gender differences between women and their partners in the effect of psychosocial and personal factors on postpartum d...

AIM To investigate differences between the breast-seeking and crying behaviour of girls and boys in skin-to-skin contact (SSC) with their mother or their father after Caesarean section as well as the point-in-time for the first breastfeeding and to compare mothers' and fathers' interactive behaviour with their newborn girl or boy. METHODS Twenty girls and 17 boys were randomized to 25 min of ...