Preparing for Fatherhood course w. Adapting to Love I Amsterdam

Taught with my husband, Atish, we’ve designed this class as an opportunity for fathers to connect, learn more about how best to support your partner & stay connected in your relationship, ask any questions you have, prepare for transitions into parenthood, and practice some basic newborn care skills.

This is a 2-part workshop. We meet for 4.5 hours (lunch catered) on a Sunday, and then the following Friday we meet for 2.5 hours (dinner catered). The group goes out for beers together after the last session.

This class is designed for anyone who identifies as a father and that is expecting a baby or currently in the newborn stage.

Taught @ Geboortecentrum Cursuscentrum in Oud West (unless otherwise indicated)

WHAT’S INCLUDED

• 2-sessions of learning, hands-on practice, and conversation.
• Catered Lunch and Dinner, snacks, coffee & tea.
• PDF of links to Amsterdam resources for your family postpartum.
• Quarterly group check-ins with your babies and partners via Zoom.
• Private access to ask for guidance from Zyanya via Whatsapp about babywearing or otherwise.
• Opportunity to join AmsterDad whatsapp group and Workshop whatsapp group to stay in touch and share tips and questions.
• 15% discount on babywearing consultations.

TOPICS

• Tips for supporting your partner during labor.
• Supporting your partner’s healing and recovery postpartum.
• Supporting your own transition into parenthood, finding support from your community, managing family, expectations, work.
• Fatherhood: Examining your own expectations of fatherhood, your goals for yourself. The importance of fathers.
• Equal parenting. How to share the load at home and with baby care in a fair way.
• Baby 101: Bathing, burping, sleeping (patterns and swaddling), babywearing, diapering.
• Intimacy and sex postpartum. How to remain connected physically and emotionally when sex-drives change.
• Physiology of Fatherhood: do dads experience hormonal changes?