Category Archives: Tips for dad

What Dads Eat Before Pregnancy Matters Too, says Study

This entry was posted in Tips for dad and tagged dads, fatherhood, Food on 01/01/2016 by Cherise Huntingford.

There’s plenty research backing up the importance of healthy body weight and good diet prior to conceiving. However – bad news, guys – a brand new study reveals that dads-to-be might have to shape up pre-pregnancy, too; and not just to increase chances of conception, but to improve infant health long-term.

A University of Copenhagen study has discovered that information about a father’s weight can be transmitted to his child via his sperm – in other words, if you’ve got a penchant for overindulgence, chances are your progeny will inherit the same proclivity for super-sizing.
Researchers analysed sperm cells from both overweight and lean men; the results indicate that there are different epigenetic marks present in the overweight men—and these markers can influence the next generation’s appetite. Continue reading

Beers and Braids: Now Dads Can Finally Learn how to do a Proper Plait. Or Die Trying.

This entry was posted in Tips for dad and tagged dads, hair, kids, plaits on 12/12/2015 by Cherise Huntingford.

Teaching how to ride a bike, explaining the point of rugby, flipping a dinosaur-shaped pancake — such is the domain of a dad. But ponytails, plaits and detangling a head full of knots? That’s strictly mum’s territory.

Until now, that is.

Melbourne hairdresser Cat Allan runs workshops for follicle-fearing fathers to help instruct them in the fine art of getting their daughters’ hair did. Continue reading

Don’t Blame It All on Hormones – Baby Blues Can Hit Dads Too.

This entry was posted in Tips for dad and tagged baby blues, dads, fatherhood, Parenting on 20/11/2015 by Cherise Huntingford.

The baby blues and postpartum depression have always had a strictly maternal association. After all, it’s all about the hormones, right?

But new research disproves not only the assumed purely physiological basis of depression after baby – but also its apparent limitations to just the female gender.

Dad Experiences the Pain of Labour – and it’s Hilarious (Obviously)

This entry was posted in General, Tips for dad and tagged Dad, Funny, labour, Mother's Day on 08/10/2015 by Cherise Huntingford.

Think of all the imaginative Mother’s Day presents you’ve received over the years, and when put together, they probably still won’t trump this dad’s attempt at the ultimate ‘thoughtful’ gift for the mother of his children…

In a show of loving solidarity – and possibly a bit of masochistic stupidity – American Broadcaster Penn Holderness agreed to let his mummy blogger wife Kim, hook him up to a labour simulator in their doctor’s surgery. “I just think to really embrace fatherhood, you should experience what it took to become a mother,” the mum-of-two says in the video the couple shared on YouTube.

No Parent has a Favourite Child…Right?

This entry was posted in General, Parenting Advice, Tips for dad and tagged child, children, Dad, favourite, mum, Parenting on 19/09/2015 by Cherise Huntingford.

If you’ve got siblings, it’s unlikely that your mum and dad will ever admit to having a preferred child –but according to a new study on family favourites, your folks probably do, and it’s usually the elder of the brood.

Researchers from the US annually interviewed 388 families for a period of three years. Each family had two children in their early and middle teen years, born no more than four years apart.