Youngdads.co.uk was created to enable young dads to access information everything they wanted to know about pregnancy, birth and beyond - but were afraid to ask!
I hope you find the site interesting and useful - please let me know if there's anything important you think I've missed out.
Many apologies for having been so slack about expanding and revising this site. I really wanted to have a message board up and running by now but work has been so manic recently that I just haven't had time to do it - so sorry! I will make a real effort to do it soon, I promise.
how youngdads.co.uk came about
My name is Mia Davies and I'm a midwife working with young parents at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in West London. I realised, through discussion with other midwives, that some young dads find the process of antenatal care pretty intimidating and do not feel comfortable asking the kind of questions they want to know the answer to. Some midwives find it difficult to communicate with young dads and, as a result, there is sometimes a tendency to ignore them. It was felt that young dads should have some other way to access support and information they needed. The domain name was purchased and the rest is history...
what now?
The site has started small, mainly because I've never done anything like this at all! I'm still learning so please bear with me. Let me know if there's anything you think should be up here that isn't - I'm happy to take all suggestions for improvement. You can email me here to let me know what you think I should include next, or how I can improve the look of the site.