Preparing for Fatherhood

Preparing for Fatherhood course:

This is a 2-part workshop. We meet for 4.5 hours (including lunch) on a Sunday, and then the following Friday we meet for 2.5 hours (dinner included). 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)

cost: 160-euros + VAT

(194-euros incl VAT)

[email about sliding scale]

 OWHAT'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.

• 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?