Since the early stages of pregnancy examination, a set of rules was defined for future mothers, identifying their diet, behavioral, and environmental patterns. However, over the last decades, researchers have started to pay attention to the ways both parents should follow for a child to develop properly. Some of these rules concern the basic principles of giving up hazardous habits, leaving much emphasis on the fathers’-to-be behavioral patterns in terms of communication with future mothers. In the course of this paper, two major pieces of advice will be estimated to help future fathers obtain more information on the subject.
To begin with, the role of the father is of crucial importance when dealing with taking care of the mother-to-be. Researchers claim that the mother’s stress levels and environment, especially at the latest stages of the child’s development, play a significant role in the future genetic characteristics of the kid (Kail & Cavanaugh, 2013). Hence, it is the father’s responsibility to secure a safe environment for the mother to let the child safely develop in the womb.
Another important piece of advice to follow is supporting the future mother. To act so, it is of significance for fathers to learn information on pregnancy, including courses for future mothers, as sometimes the cognitive abilities of a pregnant woman require some backup. According to the statistics, more than 30% of the future father search pregnancy-related information on the Internet to be prepared for labor (Oscarsson et al., 2018). Hence, although it is universally believed that future mothers are the ones who have to follow a series of rules to give birth to a healthy kid, fathers play a tremendous role in the context of performing these rules.
References
Kail, R. V., & Cavanaugh, J. C. (2013). Human development: a lifespan view (6th ed.): Cengage.
Oscarsson, M. G., Medin, E., Holmström, I., & Lendahls, L. (2018). Using the internet as a source of information during pregnancy-a descriptive cross-sectional study among fathers-to-be in Sweden. Midwifery, 62, 146-150.