Preparing for Fatherhood

Preparing for Fatherhood course:

This is a 2-part workshop. We meet for 5 hours (including lunch) on a Sunday, and then the following Friday we meet for 3 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: 194-euros inc

[email about sliding scale]

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.

• 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?