Relationship and mental health for new dads
A new baby puts the most pressure on the two people holding it. These guides cover postpartum depression (hers and yours), sleep deprivation, and keeping your relationship strong, with real resources when you need more help.
Guides
- Keeping Your Relationship Strong After a Baby: A Practical PlanBabies strain relationships in predictable ways. How to split the work fairly, fight better, stay connected on no sleep, and get help early when things feel off.
- Newborn Sleep Deprivation: A Survival Plan for Dads (and Moms)How new parents survive sleep deprivation: shift systems that protect real sleep, safety rules for tired parents, and when exhaustion needs a doctor.
- Paternal Postnatal Depression: Yes, Dads Get It TooAbout 1 in 10 new dads experience depression. How it shows up differently in men, the risk factors, what helps, and where to get support, without shame.
- Supporting a Partner With Postpartum Depression: A Dad's GuideBaby blues or postpartum depression? The warning signs that need urgent help, what to say, how to get her care, and how to look after yourself.
- Sex and Intimacy After a Baby: What Dads Should KnowWhen couples can have sex after birth, why her timeline matters most, birth control, pain and libido changes, and staying close without pressure.
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